Web browser as FTP client: errors on my (solaris 2.4) FTP site

Web browser as FTP client: errors on my (solaris 2.4) FTP site

Post by Edward Pi » Sat, 14 Sep 1996 04:00:00



        Howdy.
        We've got an FTP server running on our Solaris 2.4 machine
(ftp://www.learner.org/) which many people use Web browsers to connect to.
I've found that Netscape 2.02 and NCSA Mosaic 3.0b3 (for the Mac) can't
connect to the site; I've been told that the latest Netscape and IE for
the PC work fine, but Mosaic for the PC doesn't work on it either. These
browsers which can't FTP to our site can FTP to many other sites.
        Any idea why this would happen - what problems we might look for
with our FTP server?
        When I say these browsers "can't FTP," I mean they can't retrieve
a directory listing (ftp://www.learner.org/pub/), a text file
(ftp://www.learner.org/pub/k12/The_Guide/readme.txt), or a binary file
(ftp://www.learner.org/pub/k12/The_Guide/MacGuide.sea.hqx).        
        Your help would be most appreciated.

                                                                ep

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Web browser as FTP client: errors on my (solaris 2.4) FTP site

Post by Hartmut Buhrmest » Mon, 16 Sep 1996 04:00:00



>       We've got an FTP server running on our Solaris 2.4 machine
> (ftp://www.learner.org/) which many people use Web browsers to connect to.
> I've found that Netscape 2.02 and NCSA Mosaic 3.0b3 (for the Mac) can't
> connect to the site; I've been told that the latest Netscape and IE for
> the PC work fine, but Mosaic for the PC doesn't work on it either. These
> browsers which can't FTP to our site can FTP to many other sites.
>       Any idea why this would happen - what problems we might look for
> with our FTP server?

Some Browsers send strange artificial user-IDs as a password for

was Internet Explorer). Your ftp server may or may not accept this.

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