Ftp Url

[silica]

I am looking for help on how to express an FTP connection as a URL. For example, if I set up an FTP account as jdoe@**** with the password "dog", how can I express the logon as a single URL for Internet Explorer? I thought it would be:

 

ftp://jdoe:dog@ftp.****

 

but that doesn't seem to work.

 

Anyone know how to do this?

 

Thanks

[borfast]

Silica, drop the 'ftp' in the URL:

ftp://jdoe:dog@****

 

It should work, that way.

[silica]

Silica, drop the 'ftp' in the URL:

 

I still get a dialog box, asking me for the username and password, which needs to be:

 

Username: jdoe@****

 

I think I need to incorporate "jdoe@****" into the original URL, but having more than one "@" in the URL completely disables it.

[Deverill]

The format for this is ftp://user:password@domain

 

If you have a user named 'user' and the password is 'password' and your

domain is abc.com then the link would be:

 

ftp://user@abc.com:password@ftp.abc.com/

USERNAME_HERE PASSWORD@SITE NAME

 

Remember that the username to the account above is not 'user' but rather

'user@abc.com'.

 

Hope it helps.

[silica]

To continue my example, if I type in ftp://jdoe@****:dog@**** or ftp://jdoe@****:dog@ftp.**** into Internet Explorer, I get a "cannot find" error message. If I type ftp://jdoe:dog@****, I get another dialog box asking me to repeat the username and password, after which I get the ftp connection. I'm just wondering how to enter this the first time to eliminate getting the username and password dialog box. The two "@" signs in the same URL seem to cause a problem.

[borfast]

silica, I can't say if this works, it just popped into my mind and I never tried it but try using '%40' instead of '@' in the username, which is the urlencoded character code for '@', like so:

 

ftp://joe%40abc.com@abc.com

[silica]

try using '%40' instead of '@' i

 

It works!!

 

Thanks very much.

[Deverill]

That's interesting, Borfast. When I tried mine IE automagically converted the '@' to the '%40'. I wonder if there's a setting or something. Anyway, HOORAY, it works!

[borfast]

Jim, that's just the way IE works. It automatically converts all "strange" characters present in an URL to their urlencoded form. I don't know why it works that way or if it's a good thing or a bad thing (personaly, I consider it annoying but sometimes it can come in handy) but I think it's the only browser I know that does it.