[10944] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: ftp URLs and browser behaviour
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Masinter)
Tue Aug 19 12:32:14 1997
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 09:26:08 PDT
From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
To: S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Cc: heaney@cambridge.scr.slb.com, www-talk@w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
There's no way to say "prompt the user for a name & password".
Some browsers do it if anonymous fails, others don't.
If you want to add that as a requirement, then you'd have
to say so.
If you want to add a new syntax, or say
ftp://:@<host>/<urlpath>
means "prompt the user if sending the empty string fails",
then we'd have to recycle *those* at proposed, too.
In any case, nobody uses the ";type=d" thing we added
to the Proposed Standard, I don't think, so I'd like to
just drop it as we move forward.
Larry
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