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Greg

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 4:35 PM, Daryl Tester <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>

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