[Linux-disciples] GNOME, ssh, and web pages

[Stephen R Laniel]

I have a remote machine mounted through Nautilus 2.8.1
over ssh, and I just double-clicked on an HTML file.
Nautilus tried to open the file in Firefox, and apparently
handed it a URL that looked like

ssh://remoteHost/path/file.html

which Firefox couldn't handle because it doesn't know about
the 'ssh://' scheme.

I understand why GNOME would behave this way, but it doesn't
seem quite right. A better approach, it seems to me, would
be to create a local temporary file and open that in the
browser. Though that would create other problems if you have
certain goals in mind. For instance, if you wanted to make
sure that the browser always had the most current copy of
the file, you'd need to make sure that the temporary file
changed whenever the remote copy changed.

In any case, this does seem like a bit of a bad design. Does
anyone know if there's a good way around it? Or whether
future versions of GNOME will address it at all?
 
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Stephen R. Laniel
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