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Author Getting a login prompt when using ftp:// in a browser
dean.hathaway@phoenix.gov

2005-05-02, 5:45 pm

You could try giving them a URL that includes a bad username:password
combination. Then the server should prompt them for a good one.

- Dean H.

> Hi folks,
>
> I have anon access to the ftp server turned off. I want a group of
> users to be able to access the ftp server via a browser as I get very
> blank stares when I mention an ftp client, or heaven forbid, a
> commmand prompt ftp session.
>
> I could give them the url tech. of putting the username/password in
> the url, but I don't want to do that for obvious reasons.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to get a username/password prompt up when a
> user points to an ftp address? This may be pretty simpleminded stuff,
> but with web services I am pretty simpleminded.<g>
>
> Apache and ftp running on NW65SP3.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim


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