[email protected] is don's email. knock yourself out 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. >
