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Speaking of which....
Authored by: victory on Sep 04, '02 07:37:55PM

...here's another trick that's a DEFINITE SECURITY RISK, but may be helpful as a last resort if you're on a machine that doesn't come with a native FTP client (MacOS 8.x and earlier, Windows 3.1, etc) Many people forget that most web-browsers work perfectly fine for doing FTP downloads. The only tricky part is including the username and password in the URL. Basically, you use the form:

ftp://username:password@ftpserver-address

A useful trick in a pinch, but risky for all else. Forget packet-sniffing, all someone has do is look at your screen (or history cache) to see your password!



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