GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 300581
add support for loading remote files on Win32
Last modified: 2008-01-15 12:52:13 UTC
Version details: and older Distribution/Version: 2003 enterprise pl using win2003 enterprise pl, gimp 2.2.x [all versions], latest GTK using a browser, copy URI of an image swith to gimp, open file menu, click 'open location', enter uri error showed: +---- JPEG image Message Could not open 'C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.2\bin\www.somesite.com\someimage.jpg' for reading: No such file or directory GIMP Message Opening 'C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.2\bin\www.somesite.com\someimage.jpg' failed: Plug-In could not open image +---- it happens with http:// and without, and with other prefixes [url, uri, file etc] if there is an option to remove this local path i'd more than happy - tried to find it trough control files and options. not suceeded. thank you
Works fine for e.g. file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/schumaml/My%20Documents/My%20Pictures/wilber-huge-alpha.png I'm not surprised that it doesn't work for HTTP, nobody worked on this for win32 so far.
This is not a problem with the dialog. As Michael has already pointed out, the problem is that there is no plug-in to load remote files for Win32 yet. Someone would have to add a Win32 specific implementation to the uri plug-in.
gnome-vfs is being ported to Win32 (http://tml-blog.blogspot.com/2005/04/evolution-to-win32-porting-status.html). I am not sure if it's a good idea to use it though, since it would probably be easier to use some Win32 API directly.
ad #1 yeah, i know i works for local files very well i was unaware of missing win32 plugin, so thought of it as a bug thanks for clearing it out
*** Bug 314458 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 332521 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I suggest to remove the "open from location" menu entry in GIMP/Win32 as long as it doesn't work. This is very confusing and a user can't guess which functions work and which do not.
It does work, it just doesn't work for remote files. See also bug #358203. I wonder why you people on Win32 can't just sit down and write a simple backend instead of wasting your time complaining. The amount of contributions from Win32 users is minimal compared to the noise they are making. We have several plug-ins that urgently need to have a few lines of Win32 specific code added but nothing ever happens there...
First, I want to point out that I'm *not* a Win32 user. I reported this bug because I was at a friend's place and wanted to show him GIMP. So I dl'ed GIMP 2.2 and wanted to load an image from the Web - didn't work, and it was embarassing because when I saw the error message, I thought it was some problem with the privileges or something like that. Also, I did not complain, but reported a bug. I only want to help, please don't believe that I'm a user who only demands and doesn't give anything. Best regards, Richard
With the libcurl backend for the uri plugin, remote files can now be supported on win32. If this doesn't work, open a bug specifically against the plugin.