php and ftp

[scialom]

Hi

I have this small script:

<script language="JavaScript">
location.href = "ftp://<?=$username?>:<?=$password?>@myIPaddress"
</script>

works fine with firefox, but not with ie

any ideas?

Thanks,
Assaf

[devinemke]

(this has nothing to do with PHP)
anyway, IE no longer supports passing username/password in URLs.

[paulnaj]

Hi Assaf,

What goes wrong?

Look at the HTML source ... has the contents of $username and $password actually printed as expected?

Paul.

[paulnaj]

Hi devinemke,

Just saw your post.

I just tried ...

[url]ftp://username:password@ipaddress[/url] on IE v6.0 and it worked fine!

Paul.

[scialom]

Yes I know, but when you use it with javascript - it doesnt work...

[devinemke]

Originally posted by paulnaj
I just tried ...

[url]ftp://username:password@ipaddress[/url] on IE v6.0 and it worked fine!

yes it does. i remember reading somewhere that this was taken out of IE some version ago. it seems to work for FTP authentication but not for HTTP authentication.