AOL FTP

[J. Landman Gay]

On 1/21/03 8:55 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:


> So it seems that to login to AOL's FTP I'd need to do something like this:
> 
>   ftp://anonymous:fourthwrld@aol.com@members.aol.com
> 
> But of course with two "@"s that won't work.  :(
> 
> How do I apply AOL's recommendation to libURL's login/password urls?

Those are the values I plug into Fetch and they work, but I've never 
tried creating a single string for use with MC. Did you try it? What 
would happen if you substituted the whatcha-callem codes for the first 
"at" sign (my brain just shorted out; what do you call those html codes 
that start with "#" or "%"?)

One thing to be aware of though -- I haven't tried logging into AOL via 
ftp recently, but in the past it was always necessary for me to be 
logged in via their proprietary software before I was able to access my 
account via Fetch. I had to have an active AOL session going before I 
could get in. This may not be true if you have set up a public download 
folder though; I never tried that.

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