When will IE support FTP host headers?

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IIS 7.0 allows you to host multiple FTP sites on one IP address using the
same port. The client has to send as part of its username data the FQDN of
the desired site, e.g., "ftp.somesite.com|joe".

I know that host headers are only for HTTP, but when will this equivalent
functionality be built into IE for the sake of FTP too so that you don't
have to enter the FQDN into the username field?

And how about the command-line FTP.EXE client built into Windows, when will
that be updated to support this host-header-ish type feature too?

Thank You!
 
LBM said:
IIS 7.0 allows you to host multiple FTP sites on one IP address using the
same port. The client has to send as part of its username data the FQDN of
the desired site, e.g., "ftp.somesite.com|joe".

I know that host headers are only for HTTP, but when will this equivalent
functionality be built into IE for the sake of FTP too so that you don't
have to enter the FQDN into the username field?

And how about the command-line FTP.EXE client built into Windows, when will
that be updated to support this host-header-ish type feature too?

Thank You!
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Because Microsoft does something doesn't mean it is standardized. The
URL you specified above is not a valid ftp URL scheme. See
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1738.txt. Where do you see in
either the generic URI scheme (section 3.1) or described in the FTP
scheme (section 3.2) a valid use of "|joe" (vertical bar and "joe") in
the domain part (net location) of the URL?
 
Because Microsoft does something doesn't mean it is standardized.

Thank you for the reply, but just because something isn't standardized (yet)
doesn't mean IE will not or should not include it as a feature.

So, does anyone know, when will IE support this feature? Will it be in IE8?

Thank You!
 
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