<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have my FTP site set up and working but I cannot
>configure it to ask for a username and password. I have a
>FTP user set up for that directory and Allow Anonymous
>Access checked with the FTP username and password I set
>up. Howerver, when I put the FTP address in my browser I
>have instant access to the files. I need for it to ask
>for the username/password.

"Jeff Cochran" <jeff.nospam@zina.com> wrote in message
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> It is behaving exactly as you set it up. "Allow Anonymous" means
> exactly that -- Allow anonymous users to have access, don't ask for a
> username or password.

>-----Original Message-----
>"Jeff Cochran" <jeff.nospam@zina.com> wrote in message
>news:41496159.1114439038@msnews.microsoft.com...
>> It is behaving exactly as you set it up. "Allow
Anonymous" means
>> exactly that -- Allow anonymous users to have access,
don't ask for a
>> username or password.
>
>Almost, but not quite.
>
>The FTP server always asks for a username and password.
Or rather, it won't
>let you do anything of any interest until you've entered
them. However, the
>standard document defining what an FTP URL means, RFC
1738, states that if
>no username is provided to the browser in the URL, the
username "anonymous"
>is to be provided by the browser to the FTP server.
>
>Log on to your server using the command-line FTP client,
and you'll see it
>offering you a prompt to enter the username, and then one
for the password.
>Log on using a browser, and it won't, because "anonymous"
got accepted.
>
>If you monitor the traffic between the browser and the
server, you'll see an
>exchange that contains the "USER" and "PASS" commands.
>
>One trick I use is to create URLs such as "ftp://???
@site.example.com" -
>since the "???" user isn't on your system (you can't use
that character in a
>user name), it'll try it, receive a failure, and then
prompt the browser
>user for a working user name and password.
>
>Alun.
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