[10942] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: ftp URLs and browser behaviour
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Masinter)
Tue Aug 19 11:54:20 1997
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 08:47:13 PDT
From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
To: Steven Heaney <heaney@cambridge.scr.slb.com>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
> 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).
I think this is an area where current implementations diverge, and that
we need to recycle the 'ftp:' scheme as a 'proposed standard' in order
to get some convergence on it.
Larry
