specs for "file" scheme

Kirubakaran P. (kiru@sybase.com)
Mon, 29 Aug 94 20:59:45 PDT 

From: kiru@sybase.com (Kirubakaran P.)

Message-Id: <9408300359.AA08987@gaia.sybgate.sybase.com>

Subject: specs for "file" scheme

To: uri@bunyip.com

Date: Mon, 29 Aug 94 20:59:45 PDT

I read the current specs. It has a mechanism whereby you can specify a
username & passwd in the URL. Otherwise the client is going to do a
ftp using "USER anonymous". Many ftp servers would like to have your email
address as the password. Also in a organisational environment machines do
not host anonymous users but due to YP or NIS one can use their own username
and password to do ftp. So it would be a good idea to make the clients login
with their own username and passwd. This requires that some key words be
named for username and passwd similar to "localhost".

for eg:

user:passwd@ would get the userid and passwd from the system and use it.

Pl. include me in the mailing list of the URL specs.

Regards,
- kiru

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Kirubakaran P.                      Sybase Inc. Emeryville,CA-94608


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