Re: A modest proposal for access authentication

Larry Masinter (masinter@parc.xerox.com)
Fri, 17 Sep 1993 09:54:48 PDT


> how about <ftp://martin@genie.lut.ac.uk/whatever> ?
> i think this is in the URL draft...

In the example you give, the username for FTP is part of the URL.
Maybe you could just extend <ftp://@genie.lut.ac.uk/whatever> to mean
'prompt for user name' instead of 'use the empty user name', and not
have to invent a new kind of URL.