On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 09:44:24 -0700, Gregory McGill wrote:
A while back we did a server upgrade, and the new FTP server tool we
use
requires a non-encrypted FTP (no SSL or TLS) connection with the user
name
'anonymous' and no password (not even your email). That is the only
way
anonymous FTP works any more. If you use a browser and go to
ftp://ftp.whtech.com, you can use 'anonymous' as the user, with no
password
as well.
The browser prompts for credentials *after* it has attempted logging in
anonymously with a prefilled in password, and failing, sometimes
several
times. Firefox and IE are particularly bad for this.
It would be nice to whitelist the banning on the anonymous user (yeah,
I know the ramifications of all of this - I had exactly the same issues
when I used to support a corporate FTP server. I have many tcpdumps of
the stupidity browsers get up to).
--
Regards,
Daryl Tester
Handcrafted Computers Pty. Ltd.
