The root problem is is that Lizard Hill is not obeying the anonymous FTP "standard". By convention, anon FTP uses "anonymous" or "ftp" as the login and an email address as the password. By insisting on an empty password, LH is breaking decades of FTP convention and the browsers aren't coping well. I'm very surprised that they can't fix this on a single line in the config file.
-Josh On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 6:57 PM, Daryl Tester <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 11:05:29 -0700, Gregory McGill wrote: > >> best to use http://ftp.whtech.com or https://ftp.whtech.com then with that >> browser > > > It's good to see the FTP site has been mapped onto http/https - that I > hadn't realised. Thanks for that! > > I normally use a real FTP client, because I've seen first hand how spack > the web browser implementations can be (given as it sounds like the hosting > provider has something like fail2ban running, which will lock out an IP > address with too many unsuccessful login attempts), but I understand the > convenience factor of why people use browsers. > > Cheers. >
