Ftp-WG: Suggestion - blank userid in FTP URLs.

> So, since these have some problems, can anyone suggest a form of generic 
> FTP URL that could be used to say that the browser must ask its user for a 
> name as well as a password?  Or are the problems I've described simply too 
> insignificant, and one of the above should be adopted?
> 
Wouldn't the syntax be:

  ftp://[user[:password]]@host[:service][/path...]

?  In which case if user is specified but no password, the client could
prompt for the password.  (Or, theoretically, also vice-versa :-)

It's implemented like this in the Kermit ftp client.

- Frank