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Too Immature a Feature To Document
Authored by: dankogai on Oct 27, '02 10:20:37AM

Here are my research results what happens when you attempt to "mount" ftp:// URIs; Under 10.2.1 with all system updates to date applied.

  1. Works when and only when your primary language is English. With any other language it silently fails
  2. Mounted volume is ALWAYS read only even when you mounted your URI with authentication
  3. Attempt to mount ftp://localhost/ causes desaster -- can't even type "sudo shutdown -r now" on Terminal.app

In short, this is still a feature too immature and unstable to recommend to my friends. No wonder Apple has left this feature undocumented.

Though I don't feel the need of ftp very high I would appreciate if Apple fixes this because Windoze 98 and above can handle ftp:// correctly.



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