FTP URL with no embedded password?

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Jason

Hi,

We have an FTP site that we need to give customers access to, they will be
using IE as a client & we would ideally like to make things really easy for
them buy sending them a link to individual images. We obviously don't want
to embedd the password so that is out of the question.

If, in IE, we use something like:

ftp://<username>:***@ftp.site/Image1.jpg

OR

ftp://<username>@ftp.site/Image1.jpg we get page cannot be displayed.

But if we use ftp://<username>@ftp.site/Image1.jpg in Mozilla we get
prompted for the password, which is exactly what we want. Is it possible to
change a setting in IE to prompt for the password in this way?

Cheers, Jase.
 
I can't reproduce this behaviour myself, even when I tell it to save a bad
password.

If you tell Internet Explorer to save your password, and you give it the
right password, then it will not prompt you for it again, just as you would
expect. Is it possible that this is what you are experiencing?

Alun.
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Mike said:
I'm having the same problem. Did you find a solution to this problem? Thanks!
Click to expand...


Which OS? You may need to install something first...

<title>KB299893 - Unable to Install FTP Folders When You Install Internet Explorer 6</title>


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A security update is available that modifies the default behavior of
Internet Explorer for handling user information in HTTP and in HTTPS URLs
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=834489
What You Should Know About the Windows Security Updates for February 2004
http://www.microsoft.com/security/security_bulletins/20040210_windows.asp
Wininet retries POST requests with a blank header
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=831167

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