"Stigers, Greg [And]" wrote:
>
> X-no-Archive:yes
> I've been working with using ftp://hostname to access our various ftp hosts
> (we need something readily available to everyone, and I doubt that command
> line ftp is friendly enough for the most casual user, to replace a vendor
> supplied CPU hog of a file transfer utility), to both upload and download.
> It's like a box of chocolates; I'm never sure what I'm going to get. The
> original poster wrote:
> According to the HTML specs, the format is...
>
> Where might I find these HTML specs for ftp URLs, the proverbial rules of
> this game?

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt

...snip...

> Our 3000 behaves somewhat more temperamentally. I cannot find a way to be
> prompted for a username and password. I cannot list a directory, even when
> specifying ;type=d, to choose files. I cannot reliably enter an ftp URL to
> download a file, but can create a clickable ftp URL in OutLook, for
> instance. I assume that the HP ARPA ftp server is doing things in ways that
> IE does not expect (although Communicator had an easier time with this on
> the 3000 and on the AS/400). This reminds me of a thread for suggested
> enhancements to the HP ARPA ftp server, and perhaps those who know about
> such things can shed some light on these behaviors.

My guess is that the MPE ftp server is too MPE-centric to be understand by
browsers (i.e. MPE :LISTFILE directory output looks nothing like Unix ls -l
output).

- Mark B.