Non-anonymous ftp with Netscape

[chris at sparkie.osl.state.or.us]

You can select any FTP program of your choice in Preferences. By default, if
you reach a file that must use FTP, Netscape will simply ask you where you
want to save it to. That is if you have not specified any helper
applications. I point my FTP to WS_FTP and then I don't have to deal with
the additional step of indicating where I want it stored. You have to
remember that the file will be saved to wherever your WS_FTP executable lives.

Christopher Adams
Oregon State Library

At 07:00 PM 11/8/95 -0800, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>I've just been lurking here for about a year, gleaning much useful
>information.  I'm hoping someone can answer this question for me.  I like
>the fact that Netscape can act as an all in one internet application,
>either on its own, or with appropriate "helper" applications configured to
>run with it.  But, the one problem I run into again and again is when I
>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
>able to include the username and password in the "Open Location" dialogue
>box, but I'm not certain that you can, or what the syntax would be.
>
>If anyone has any experience with this, I'd greatly appreciate hearing it.
>
>Thank you.
>
>Tim
>
>Tim Tripp
>Library Supervisor
>Spar Space Systems (Brampton)
>Spar Aerospace Ltd.
>9445 Airport Road
>Brampton, Ontario
>Canada
>L6S 4J3
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>
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