- From: Steven Heaney <heaney@cambridge.scr.slb.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 97 18:26:53 +0100
- To: "Larry Masinter" <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org
On Tue, Aug 19, 1997 5:26 pm, Larry Masinter <mailto:masinter@parc.xerox.com> wrote: >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 > As you say, it looks like there is no way currently to access an FTP resource which is password protected without placing a valid username in the URL. This is somewhat limiting. Thinking about it, the behaviour I'm looking for would simply be a mirror of that when requesting an HTTP resource which requires authentication. Regards, Steve.
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