Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > fre 2007-04-06 klockan 21:37 +0100 skrev Nick Kew: > >>> What about modifying mod_ftp USER directive to accept username in the >>> format of [EMAIL PROTECTED], and tokenize user as the username, host as the >>> http-ish Host: virtual host name? >> Sounds fair, provided the protocol doesn't assign some (different) >> semantics to that. > > FTP as such doesn't assign any semantic on the syntax of usernames, but > very many FTP firewalls/proxies do...
I'm thinking of providing a directive to supply an alternate/additional semantic separator... Firefox is fine with... ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ but it's odd enough I wouldn't trust that to be consistently supported, and you raise a good point with proxy/firewalls. So if, for example, the admin wanted to define & as the alternative separator, ftp://me&myhost:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ would be a little less ambiguous to browser-style schemas. As it turns out it's impossible to proceed without solving the subreq issue first - bah. So I'll come back to this idea after I've refactored ftp_command.c to speak in top level requests. Bill
