Re: URL Access Scripting
Re: URL Access Scripting
- Subject: Re: URL Access Scripting
- From: "Serge Belleudy-d'Espinose" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 00:59:00 +0100
At 17:07 -0600 7/12/01, JollyRoger wrote:
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I'm confused as to why you are even including a name and password when the
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server is running anonymous FTP. AFAIK, to log into an anonymous FTP
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server, you use this type of URL:
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ftp://ftpserver.com/
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It's only when you *need* authentication that you use:
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ftp://username:email@hidden
Well, really anonymous is mostly an AppleShare thing, where to log in as guest you submit nothing. As for FTP, it's a common feature to require 'anonymous' as user name and an email address as password. Whether some servers actually do something with the address is beyond my knowledge.
Here is the clever answer that was given on the other list:
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From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
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Since this is a URL, you just URL-encode the "@" (as "@"):
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"ftp://tjt:email@hidden@ftpads.journaltimes.com/";
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-Walter
Serge
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