Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3E2BCEA8.959CD520@csksoftware.com> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:25:44 +0100 From: "Johan Bezem" Reply-To: CygWin Mailing List Organization: CSK Software AG X-Accept-Language: en,de,nl,el,fr,af,es,it MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Max Bowsher Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Adding/removing custom mirror URLs in setup.exe... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20010407 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. > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/