Re: URL Access Error codes
Re: URL Access Error codes
- Subject: Re: URL Access Error codes
- From: JollyRoger <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 07:38:38 -0600
On 3/14/2002 1:18 AM, "Malcolm Fitzgerald" <email@hidden> wrote:
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1. The server. We used to send things to upload.zipworld.com.au now
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we send things to our domain name
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2. our login is now our full email address, previously it was simply
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our account name. That means there are two @ symbols in the URL. URL
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Access chokes on that, so I'm sending it in a converted state.
Error -3170 is an Open Transport (OT) error:
-3170 kOTBadNameErr The endpoint name is invalid.
So this is a connection problem of some sort. My guess is OT is not able to
figure out what part of the URL is the username and what part is the domain
name. Was the FTP protocol ever *designed* to allow @ characters in
usernames??? I kind of doubt it. Maybe you should talk to your FTP admin
about changing your FTP username to a simple username.
HTH
JR
PS: You know, I've seen this problem here once before recently. It seems
fairly uncommon to me for an administrator to use an @ character in a
username. I have to wonder why a sys admin would ever ask users to use an
email address rather than a standard username. I don't see how using email
addresses is much more secure than using usernames. The common security
problems with FTP servers typically have to do with buffer overflows, etc.
Could it be that the person maintaining this FTP server is a Mac OS/Winblows
user who doesn't really know much about FTP servers running some dinky FTP
server on his machine? Just curious - I'm interested in learning what is at
the bottom of this circumstance.
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