[10946] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: ftp URLs and browser behaviour
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet)
Tue Aug 19 13:43:58 1997
From: galactus@htmlhelp.com (Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet)
To: www-talk@w3.org
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 19:34:53 +0200
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In article <B01F52F7-D67D3@134.32.101.215>,
"Steven Heaney" <heaney@cambridge.scr.slb.com> wrote:
> 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
Not that I can see. You can of course explicitly embed a username in
the URL, but that doesn't do what you want, if you want what I
think you want.
I would say it is a browser function - if you can't get in to an
FTP server, the client can detect the reason ("user unknown" is
a different error than "too many connections" etc), and pop up a
dialog box to ask for a correct username/password.
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