Opened 12 years ago
Closed 12 years ago
#3902 closed enhancement (fixed)
Allow opening the target of symlinks (helps opening files through /vsicurl, /vsizip)
Reported by: | Even Rouault | Owned by: | warmerdam |
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Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 1.8.0 |
Component: | default | Version: | unspecified |
Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
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Description
Many software only enable to open datasets/datasources through file explorers. But GDAL/OGR ressources can be virtual filenames, such as /vsicurl/http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/data/gtiff/utm.tif
The idea is that if someone does :
ln -sf /vsicurl/http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/data/gtiff/utm.tif my_remote_utm.tif
he will see my_remote_utm.tif in a file browser and GDAL/OGR will open the target of the symlink (after the direct opening of my_remote_utm.tif failes).
Tested successfully with QGIS.
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Commited in r21440