[ILUG] thing of the day....

[Justin Mason]

Gary Coady said:

> > >  I've also had a look at the "services". One is a freshmeat compeditor
> > > (kinda nice, but when I clicked "install" I got an librpm error. Must
> > > upgrade that), the other is the online drive. Which is ... ok I suppose.
> > 
> > The big problem I've had with it is Mozilla, of course -- with Nautilus,
> > Mozilla itself (as nightlies) and Galeon all competing to be *the*
> > mozilla, only one of 'em can work.  It's absurd.
> 
> Umm... it's not really competing against mozilla - it's using the install
> of mozilla on this machine for the embedded component. Unless RPMs are
> packaged differently?
> Though saying that, the mozilla package I'm using here is M18+2000.11.22
> (a Progeny package), and I haven't yet managed to get nautilus on Potato
> to work using the M18-3 package of mozilla there...

No -- it's not competing against Mozilla -- the problem I meant, was
exactly what you're saying.  Galeon, Mozilla nightlies and Nautilus all
expect to find a working Moz, with such-and-such a version and
such-and-such a binary interface, living as a set of .so's in /usr/lib or
/usr/local/mozilla... and that just ain't gonna happen ;)

The interface to Moz components is very version-dependent, because it's
all binary, C++ and dynamic-linking-based, and it's fragile.

At least Nautilus doesn't coredump when it finds the wrong Moz version
installed, like Galeon does. :(

> I think they're using DAV... I can't remember a certain site, but when I
> went to it, I got a file listing of the root directory instead of getting
> a web page... guess it's an improperly locked down PROPFIND on a
> DAV-enabled server? Anyway, on mozilla alone, or IE, the proper page
> appeared.

oops!  I wonder if the black hat community have written DAV scanners yet?

--j.