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

At 04:29 PM 10/12/2002, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
>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?

Funnily enough, it never occurred to me to ask why the customers wanted a 
URL like that.  It just didn't seem like that crazy of a request to make.

Perhaps it's for auditing access to a file that is shared between several 
users?  So that you could use a web page that read something like 
"ftp://??@mysite/sharedfile.zip", and have a log of which of your users 
downloaded the file.

Alun.
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