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

Alun Jones writes:
> there is currently no generic URL to 
> say that the browser's user must be prompted for user name and password.

I don't understand. Why would anyone want a URL like that? Do you also
want URLs that prompt for the file name? Is this supposed to be some
sort of crude substitute for HTTP-based forms?

---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago