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Date:	Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:25:44 +0100
From:	"Johan Bezem" <jbezem AT csksoftware DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Adding/removing custom mirror URLs in setup.exe...
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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 AT 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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