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From: gl4317 on 22 Mar 2010 02:15 In article <ho6if1$rdu$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Groleau+nntp(a)FreeShell.org wrote: > gl4317(a)yahoo.com wrote: > > The one thing that I really hate about using FTP in IE or some other web > > browsers is that with the built in memorty URL, you have to be sure to > > clear the URL memory. Otherwise, it remembers your username and password > > as it is built into the URL - at least with the way windows does it. > > I think that's not an issue. The few times I've used it, it puts the > URI up without the ID and password, and I have to add it in. Also, you > don't have to put ID and password in the URI. If you omit one or both, > IE will ask you for it (them) in a pop-up. It has been a very long time since I have used IE's FTP features, but what I remember it doing is adding the username and password into the URL after they were entered into the popup. It's as if IE didn't know how else to deal with FTP, other than dump that stuff into the URL for the FTP site. -- -Glennl Please note this e-mail address is a pit of spam, and most e-mail sent to this address are simply lost in the vast mess.
From: Warren Oates on 22 Mar 2010 07:47 In article <slrnhqdnj4.2189.g.kreme(a)cerebus.local>, Lewis <g.kreme(a)gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote: > BUGS > There is no conversion specification for the phase of the moon. That's just plain incompetence. The moon's been around for a long time, at least since Genesis-1.1, probably longer; these guys should have figured it out by now. -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer
From: Jim Gibson on 22 Mar 2010 11:13 In article <4ba67468$0$10427$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > Warren Oates wrote: > > man mount_ftp > > > > will tell you that it's mounting a read-only filesystem. This may have > > more to do with filesystems and mount(8) than security. > > > Actually, the exact text is more interesting because of the use of a > certaun 4 letter word that begins with B and ends with ugs . (At the > very end of the MAN page) > > ## > BUGS > mount_ftp only supports mounting read-only. > > Mac OS X June 6, 2003 > ## > > > So, this doesn't appear to have been a "design decision", but rather a > BUG (aka: the write portion was probably very buggy, so they disabled it) That is an unwarranted conclusion. It is common for man pages to list missing features that might be added someday. In other words, it is a "bug" from the user's standpoint in that the software doesn't do something that the user might want it to do. There is no evidence that Apple intended the Finder to act as a read-write FTP client. The man page writer was simply being up front about a possible perceived limitation in the software. -- Jim Gibson
From: Wes Groleau on 22 Mar 2010 13:05 gl4317(a)yahoo.com wrote: > It has been a very long time since I have used IE's FTP features, but what > I remember it doing is adding the username and password into the URL after > they were entered into the popup. It's as if IE didn't know how else to > deal with FTP, other than dump that stuff into the URL for the FTP site. I haven't tried it on IE7 or IE8 but IE6.0.2900.5512.sp3 does not remember the ID and password in the history, even if you got there by explicitly putting it in the URI. I kind of doubt IE7/IE8 would be different--not even Microsoft is stupid enough to reopen such an obvious security hole. (IE history is quite easy to find on Windows) -- Wes Groleau There are more Baroque musicians than any other kind.
From: gl4317 on 23 Mar 2010 00:48
In article <ho880a$v5s$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Groleau+nntp(a)FreeShell.org wrote: > I kind of doubt IE7/IE8 would be different--not even Microsoft is stupid > enough to reopen such an obvious security hole. (IE history is quite > easy to find on Windows) Several years ago, when I last attempted this with IE, that is exactly where it wound up. That's why I insisted on finding something other than IE. -- -Glennl Please note this e-mail address is a pit of spam, and most e-mail sent to this address are simply lost in the vast mess. |