On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 03:54:18PM -0400, Dan Boger wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 03:42:09PM -0400, John Saylor wrote: > > most web browsers 'speak' FTP [like they do HTML]. just use the correct > > URL and you should be all set. > > ftp://ftp.epicsol.org/pub/epic/EPIC5-ALPHA/ > > > > if you need a login, you can also embed this info in the URL > > ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/directory/file.txt > > Only for real web-browsers, or unpatched IE. MS, in the infinite > wisdom decided that they should drop support for that kind of URL (with > the embedded username/password) because it was too dangerous. > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5Bln%5D;834489
Apologies - I didn't realize that the cahnge only affected http:// URIs, and that it still works with ftp://. -- Dan Boger [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
