Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Q - afp mount via www?
From: Joel Klecker (jk@espy.org)
Date: Wed Oct 28 1998 - 19:10:17 EST
At 15:27 -0700 1998-10-22, Neil McAllister wrote:
>>Mac laptops not only have a browser, but the AFP client too. So, is
>>there a way I can make a Mac mount an afp volume via a web page visit?
>
>It may or may not be useful to you to learn that OS 8.5's new Network
>Browser application supports AppleShare IP URLS of the format:
>
>afp://username:password@ashareipserver.domain.com
>
>Unfortunately, I can't find a way to support it in Netscape
An AppleScript such as the following should do it (note that some versions
of Netscape do not save protocol registrations to the preferences file as
they should, and thus will "forget" them after being quit).
tell application "Netscape"
register protocol "nbrw" for protocol "afp:"
end tell
-- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) <URL:mailto:jk@espy.org> <URL:http://web.espy.org/> Debian GNU/Linux user/developer on i386 and powerpc. <URL:mailto:espy@debian.org> <URL:http://www.debian.org/>
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