On Saturday 20 October 2001 00:49, Jens Benecke wrote: > > in the same way as in ftp mode: Following a link, going up one directory > > and so on. > > FTP is basically a 'stripped down shell' which allows data transfers. HTTP > is a protocol that only allows single document retrievals. You cannot do a > 'ls -l' in HTTP. > > FTP is displayed just like a local disk, or any disk. "Save as..." doesn't > really make sense here, just like it doesn't make sense when you read a > CD-ROM or floppy. What _does_ make sense is "copy", "move", etc.
I can't agree with that. In my opinion, the konqueror creates an _unified_ view of different protocols. I don't care about if the underlaying protocol is ftp or http. What I want is a "Save as..." function. Maybe it is needless on local disks, however, I'm tired to "copy / goto home / paste". Frank -- Frank Mehnert ## Dept. of Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology, Germany ## ## E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~fm3 ##