Bug 137580 - http server & leading '/'
Summary: http server & leading '/'
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 120954
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Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: YaST2 (show other bugs)
Version: Alpha 2
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Jiri Srain
QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2005-12-08 14:18 UTC by Michael Meeks
Modified: 2005-12-16 07:58 UTC (History)
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Description Michael Meeks 2005-12-08 14:18:05 UTC 
I assumed that the http://foo/baa URI would be constructed from entering 'foo' and 'baa' in the relevant dialogs in my startup foo.

Apparently, you have to enter '/baa' in the 2nd (directory) field or things go very badly wrong - that seems non-intuitive & wasted a chunk of my time.
Comment 1 Michael Gross 2005-12-08 15:02:33 UTC 
Sorro Michael, but you lost me here for a second: Are you talking about the configuration masks for FTP serves (and so on) in YaST?

In general, yes: you have to specify the server and the path seperately there, which makes it always nasty to just copy&paste these locations.

I'll make this an enhancement. It should really be possible to specify the whole URI at once. Other users complained about that, too. It's not the first time I hear about this.

Jiri: Why was this done this way initially? Probably to ease the pain of parsing the URL I guess...
Comment 2 Michael Meeks 2005-12-08 15:09:29 UTC 
Nah - my problem is simpler - not the 2 box thing - I can live with that I guess ;-)
The problem was if I missed a pre-pended '/' to the HTTP 'path' then nothing worked ;-) might be nice to check for that in the code & prepend if not there.
Comment 3 Jiri Srain 2005-12-16 07:58:06 UTC 
There is a possibility to enter whole URI as one string when adding a new installation source (hope this is what you are talking about). Just don't know whether it is already present in Alpha2, please, check Alpha4.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 120954 ***