a most unusual dialog warning

Timothy J Luoma tjlists at bigfoot.com
Tue Apr 13 00:37:30 PDT 1999


Replying to message of Mon, 12 Apr 1999 01:25:00 -0700
	from Ken Case <kc at omnigroup.com>
	regarding ``Re: a most unusual dialog warning''
	
> 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.)

FYI (not for Ken, since he no doubt knows this already) but the 'Store'  
feature does work if you are working on a remote file and specify the path in  
the above manner.

Sub-optimal, sure, but an easy way to tidy up a few things without the  
tedium of FTPing manually.

TjL




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