a most unusual dialog warning

Ken Case kc at omnigroup.com
Mon Apr 12 01:25:00 PDT 1999


> > It works for authenticated FTP (and, I think, HTTP) sessions
> > now
>
> Meaning what?  I'm not sure how to establish an authenticated
> FTP session w/ OW (I know [think] there's some method for giving
> an FTP URL w/ username & password in it, but I've never used it)

Right, it's:

	ftp://username:password@hostname/

(Obviously that's not a very optimal way to specify your password,  
since it remains visible in the URL.  We should add some notion of  
authentication for FTP along the lines of what we have for HTTP.)

				Ken



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