[10941] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
ftp URLs and browser behaviour
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Heaney)
Tue Aug 19 08:44:36 1997
Date: 19 Aug 97 13:41:01 +0100
From: "Steven Heaney" <heaney@cambridge.scr.slb.com>
To: www-talk@w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
If I want to reference a resource via an ftp URL that requires a username
and password (other than anonymous) on the host machine, is there a
standard way to indicate this in the URL without providing a username
i.e.
ftp://:@myhost.com/a/resource
This doesn't work (under Netscape), but the alternative
ftp://myhost.com/a/resource
only tries the username 'anonymous' and fails if this is not supported
on the host. Is there a standard solution (the URL RFC 1738 isn't clear
on this) or is it simply a browser implementation issue (Cyberdog
for example requests a username and password if anonymous fails).
Thanks,
Steve.
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Steve Heaney
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