On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Fergus Brooks wrote: snipped ... > Also I have found that often to get to an FTP server on the Internet > (depending on the proxy, connection, firewall etc) that you need to use > this format. Taking this functionality away will certainly make it > harder for a lot of support people and consultants to do their jobs. > snipped ... I just applied this patch (KB832894 MS-04-004) to IE 6.0 on W2K to check handling of ftp url's. After the patch, ftp://username:password@site still works. I think the change only applies to http, https.
