Re: ftp URLs and browser behaviour

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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