fish:// URL's not working in Konqueror and Dolphin (KDE 4.3Beta)

[Michael Hirsch]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Alvin<info at alvin.be> wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 June 2009 08:41:37 Divan Santana wrote:
>> Same here.
>> Workaround is to use sftp .
>> Seems to work just as well if not quicker. Apparently its more
>> technically correct I'm not exactly sure why.
>
> sftp only works if your SSH version supports it. Fish was a hack needed to
> place a script on the remote server in order to work. Apparently, that was
> less secure. I don't know the details, but those where the reasons fish was
> abandoned in favour of sftp for KDE4.

My understanding is that fish just uses commandline ssh commands in
the backgroud.  It parses the output of "ls -l", uses "cat" to capture
files, etc, or something like that.  sftp is actually designed for
file transfer.

fish is very useful for me as I have a server that doesn't support
sftp, but it does do ssh, so sftp won't work.  I use sftp:// whenever
I can, but am currently stuck with fish on my one server.

I do hope that fish isn't abandoned.  I encourage you to file a bug
report against it for KDE 4.3Beta.  That's what beta releases are for.

Michael