--On Thursday, May 11, 2000, 4:00 PM -0400 "Pennell, David"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> IE 5.0 allows drag and drop to FTP out of the box
>> (but I don't know
>> how (or if) it handles authentication.
>
> If you enter an url like ftp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/,
> you will receive a standard authentication dialog
> with the user name filled in. You can choose to have
> it remember your password. I assume it uses the normal
> FTP authentication messages. What I can't figure out is
> how it decides between BINARY and ASCII mode. It gets
> confused enough that I stopped using it after the first
> day.
Making the horribly brash assumption that it respects RFCs, I believe if you
add
";type=" and one of the codes 'a', 'd', 'i'
>From RFC1738:
If the typecode is "d", perform a NLST (name list) command with
<name> as the argument, and interpret the results as a file
directory listing.
Otherwise, perform a TYPE command with <typecode> as the argument,
and then access the file whose name is <name> (for example, using
the RETR command.)
a is "ascii" and i is "image" (binary?).
So maybe that'll work :)
Upon checking, it looks like it *always* defaults to $a :( Or something. I'm
not really sure it understands type.
Of course, I'm not sure *I* understand type :)
Oh well.
Cheers,
Bijan.
