Adding/removing custom mirror URLs in setup.exe...
Johan Bezem
jbezem@csksoftware.com
Mon Jan 20 15:04:00 GMT 2003
Maybe it doesn't parse the ftp://... string itself, but in our case it
*works* nonetheless.
Can it be that the string is passed to the FTP-server unaltered, and the
server knows how to process such a string?
Ciao,
Johan Bezem
CSK Software AG
Max Bowsher wrote:
>
> MB> > > Don't know whether setup understands usernames/passwords. I'll
> MB> > >dig in the
> MB> > > source tomorrow, if no one has answered by then.
>
> RC> > It should, Corinna IIRC uses ftp w/passwords.
>
> CV> No, I don't.
>
> OK, well I checked briefly in the source, here's the result:
>
> Setup DOES have *some* support for ftp auth, but DOES NOT understand
> ftp://user:passwd@host/. Instead, it tries to pop up a dialog when
> anonymous login fails.
>
> So: the original poster should try without user:pass@ in the URL.
>
> Max.
>
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