Non-anonymous ftp with Netscape

[John Millard]

On Wed, 8 Nov 1995, Tim Tripp wrote:

> need to ftp something from a site which requires a user name and a
> password.
> 
> Sure, I have an ftp application that handles this just fine, but I'm
> wondering if one can do this with Netscape?  I imagine that you should be


You can do it by modifying your ftp URL slightly.  Say you wanted to 
anonymous ftp to ftp.test.ed, your URL would be ftp://ftp.test.edu/

To ftp under a specific user instead of anonymous, you'd construct it 
like a mailto, for example for user jsmith the URL would be:
ftp://jsmith@ftp.test.edu/

Netscape will popup a dialogue box asking for the password.  

Hope tha works/helps.

John
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