VS-FTPD Configuration Issue

[Robert Crowther]

On Tue, 11 May 2004 18:00:16 +0100, mlists at tdbnetworks.org
<mlists at tdbnetworks.org> wrote:
> The problem is as followes if I tell a customer to access the url
> ftp://ftp.bobsfilestore.com then IE attempts to connect to that host,
> prompts for login details and then displays there personal file area,
> however if they try and access ftp://ftp.bobsfilestore.com/file1.zip then IE
> just responds with a "The page cannot be displayed" message.
>
You used to be able to pass the username and password in in URL (like
ftp://username@ftp.site.com) but I believe M$ changed this as a
security flaw in IE a few months ago so you can't have things like '@'
in a URL anymore.

I should think either you're going to have to put everything into an
anonymous accessible directory, or you're going to need some sort of
middleware (PHP, CGI script or similar) to handle the FTP transaction
and stream the file to the browser.

Rob