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3.2 file and ftp

     ftp://user:password@host:port/file
     file://user:password@host:port/file

These schemes are defined in RFC 1808. ‘ftp:’ and ‘file:’ are synonymous in this library. They allow reading arbitrary files from hosts. Either ‘ange-ftp’ (Emacs) or ‘efs’ (XEmacs) is used to retrieve them from remote hosts. Local files are accessed directly.

Compressed files are handled, but support is hard-coded so that jka-compr-compression-info-list and so on have no affect. Suffixes recognized are ‘.z’, ‘.gz’, ‘.Z’ and ‘.bz2’.

— User Option: url-directory-index-file

The filename to look for when indexing a directory, default ‘"index.html"’. If this file exists, and is readable, then it will be viewed instead of using dired to view the directory.