Re: URL Access Scripting
Re: URL Access Scripting
- Subject: Re: URL Access Scripting
- From: JollyRoger <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 17:17:16 -0600
On 12/7/2001 7:43 PM, "Giuliano Gavazzi" <email@hidden> wrote:
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At 5:07 pm -0600 2001/12/07, 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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> 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
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> So just remove the username and password stuff from your script.
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while this is a practical solution, it is only a partial one, as the
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anonymous login *might* require a password that looks like an email
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address.
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If you ever used ftp from the command line (and ten years ago this
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was very common), you would have noticed that anonymous ftp server
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often asked you to enter your email address. Although not compulsory
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(in most cases) it is a matter of courtesy to comply.
Yes, I know how FTP servers work.
I have always been under the assumption that URL Access does the appropriate
thing when you use a URL such as
ftp://ftpserver.com/ - it supplies a user
name of "anonymous" and a password of the email address obtained from the
Internet control panel.
Are you saying that URL Access does NOT send the email address from the
Internet control panel when you use a URL such as
ftp://ftpserver.com/?
JR