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Authored by: darcybrown on Oct 26, '02 09:06:12PM
Although I am not sure how MacOSX implements adding the username and password to the URL, I assume that it is using the same standard way as it is in browsers.
Including a password that is meant to be secret in the URL is way unsecure. In fact, there is nothing secure about it, it is clear text.
here is more info (RFC 2396)
Logging in to you web host with this method is probably not the best thing to do.

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Authored by: sitharus on Oct 26, '02 11:55:09PM

FTP is by its nature insecure, as the passwords are sent in plain text. Of course, if the finder saves the URL in the box then you have a problem, but iirc if you just put a username it asks for a password.

If you want to be secure you have to use secure copy (scp)



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