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Date:	Tue, 7 Aug 2001 12:25:04 PDT
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Boot drive ? / Homework results

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> Steven Levine wrote:
> >
> > >I can't remember the syntax for putting
> > >the ftp password in the browser url.
> >
> > ftp://anonymous:steve53%40earthlink.net@bbs.os2bbs.com
> >
> > You need to use the %-escape to get the
> > @ through to the server. All servers
> > are supposed to support this but, YMMV.

Harry Chris Motin wrote:
>
> Could you explain this a little more. In
> the example you showed, where is the
> os2bbs user id and where is the password?

Hi Harry,

If you mean his ftp example, many ftp servers allow you to sign on with
a user id of "anonymous" and a courtesy password of your email address.

So in his example, the user id is "anonymous" and the password is
"steve53@earthlink.net" but you have to substitute the hex code "%40"
for the "@" so your client/browser's parser doesn't get confused (the
second "@" just before the url doesn't get any substitution). Your
client or browser separates the user id, password and url and contacts
the ftp server, then sends the "user userid" and "pass password" lines
when prompted by the server.

Thus, the syntax is

ftp://userid:password@url

where userid is either your account info with that site or "anonymous",
and password is either your account password with that site or the "%40"
email address.

Some browsers do an "anonymous" login automatically if you specify just
an "ftp://url" string (without user id or password) and use the email
address you have in the browser's email setup, thus you only need to use
the full syntax if you want to use a different email address as a
password during an anonymous login.

- Peter

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