On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 03:21:02PM +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 08:52 -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > > > ftp://user:password@host/ > > > > That does work, but it's discouraged in the FAQ. I'd also rather not > > teach my users to type passwords in visible cleartext, I have enough > > trouble getting them to not use their passwords as desktop wallpaper. :-) > > Then persuade the browser vendors to support HTTP authentication on > ftp://user@host/ links when using proxies. Squid does the best it can > and asks for authentication credentials, not sure what else we can do. Fair enough. Squid certainly does its best with what it's given, no offense meant. I would have sworn that I'd seen this working before, but I guess I was wrong. > > a) anyone know how to make IE 6 SP 2 and/or Firefox 1.5 prompt for a > > password at a non-anonymous FTP site? > > As a workaround/test you can use a redirector at the proxy, rewriting > some http:// address into the desired ftp address (with some user@ in > the host part, what does not matter, just to tell Squid that it's > non-anonymous). And all of a sudden the client understands how to do > authentication because now the URL starts with http:// instead of > ftp://. That's really the only difference in all other aspects, as in > both cases the client uses HTTP to the proxy.. That's a clever idea, but will only confuse our users. Thank you for the insight, much appreciated. ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas mwlucas@xxxxxxxxxxx, mwlucas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Latest book: PGP & GPG -- http://www.pgpandgpg.com "The cloak of anonymity protects me from the nuisance of caring." -Non Sequitur
