FTP doesn't work in 0.5.

[Steven Buechler]

>I've verified that, in fact, FTP access is screwed up in OmniWeb.
>For some reason, the file you click on   sometimes doesn't get
>appended to the current path, so most FTP accesses fail.  Actually,
>I wonder how I   ever got FTP to work.  This seems like a bug in
>the underlying W3 library, but I don't know for sure.    (Mostly,
>the library just works; we've had to modify very little to get
>OmniWeb rocking.)
>
>If someone could mail figure out when it does and doesn't work, I'd
>be appreciative.

I just did a lot of ftp-ing from cs.orst.  The only problem I had was  
when I double-clicked on something with a  .compressed  extension it  
did not get transferred.  With every other file I got a save panel in  
/tmp and a copy shortly thereafter (or a display of the ascii file).

Steve

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