KDE: Konqueror and fish protocol
HI all, Does anybody know what this "fish protocol" is that Konqueror can apparently use? I've noticed in Konqueror that besides typing "http:", one can also type things like "camera:", "ftp:", "sftp:" (but it doesn't quite work for me), and perhaps many others. I've just discovered "fish:" which appears to work the way I would expect "sftp:" to work. Does anybody have any experience with this? Thanks, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org
On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 20:08, Andy Stewart wrote:
HI all,
Does anybody know what this "fish protocol" is that Konqueror can apparently use?
I've noticed in Konqueror that besides typing "http:", one can also type things like "camera:", "ftp:", "sftp:" (but it doesn't quite work for me), and perhaps many others. I've just discovered "fish:" which appears to work the way I would expect "sftp:" to work.
Does anybody have any experience with this?
I haven't used it, but a quick google search turned up this: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2003-11/1544.html It's apparently a kde built in scp functionality. -- Gregory Boyce <gboyce@badbelly.com>
On Sunday 07 March 2004 20:08, Andy Stewart wrote:
HI all,
Hi,
Does anybody know what this "fish protocol" is that Konqueror can apparently use?
From KDE Docs: "Allows you to access another computer's files using a simple SSH shell account and standard UNIX® utilities on the remote side."
I've noticed in Konqueror that besides typing "http:", one can also type things like "camera:", "ftp:", "sftp:" (but it doesn't quite work for me), and perhaps many others. I've just discovered "fish:" which appears to work the way I would expect "sftp:" to work.
Does anybody have any experience with this? This is called a KIOSlave. KDE has many KIOSlaves that are available to all KDE applications. If you are running KDE 3.2, start kinfocenter, about two-thirds of the way down the list on your left, you'll see 'Protocols', click that to see all the protocols, or KIOSlaves, available in KDE. Another one that i use is info:// because i can never remember how to navigate info
This is not only for konqueror, but all KDE enabled applications. For example, if you are writing a document using kword or kate, you can go to 'File->Save As ... ' and in the directory location you can type fish://<remotehost>/ and you'll be able to save the kword document to the remote host over ssh. This actually applies anythere you see a file dialog in a KDE application. pages. This is a really cool technology that KDE has had since the 2.0 days. Gnome has something similar called GnomeVFS, i believe. enjoy, --Brad
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:08:51AM -0500, brad noyes wrote:
This is a really cool technology that KDE has had since the 2.0 days. Gnome has something similar called GnomeVFS, i believe.
I don't know if KDE started it or not, but at least gnome and lftp both support "fish" protocol. The fish apparently (roughly) stands for "files over ssh", and appears to be an alternative to sftp. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu WPI Network Engineer
On Monday 08 March 2004 12:08 am, brad noyes wrote:
This is called a KIOSlave. KDE has many KIOSlaves that are available to all KDE applications. If you are running KDE 3.2, start kinfocenter, about two-thirds of the way down the list on your left, you'll see 'Protocols', click that to see all the protocols, or KIOSlaves, available in KDE. Another one that i use is info:// because i can never remember how to navigate info pages.
This is a really cool technology that KDE has had since the 2.0 days. Gnome has something similar called GnomeVFS, i believe.
enjoy, --Brad
HI Brad, I didn't know about kinfocenter. Upon seeing that, I suspected that this info was also buried in the KDE Control Center, but I don't see it there (I'm running KDE 3.1.4). After poking around, I see that it is available in the KDE Help Center (khelpcenter). I tried using the fish protocol to access the machine hosting the WLUG website, and it worked just great. I've been looking for this definitive list of the KIOSlaves for some time. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org
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