273815 - ftp login screen to a ftp site has no place for user name, causing password to be rejected

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core Graveyard :: Networking: FTP, defect)

Description

[Frank]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Internet Explorer brings up both a password box and a user name box, both of
which are required to reach the root dirrectory for my homepage. FireFox asumes
that the   user page name is my user name, causing the password to be rejected.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.ftp the address of the root dirrectory of your homepage.
2.There is a place to enter your password but not your user name.
3.Firefox asumes that the "userpage" is your "user name" and rejects the login
attempt because they are not the same.

Actual Results:  
Message reads: "530 User [userpage's name] cannot log in" But the [userpage
name] is not my user name.

Expected Results:  
Provide a place to enter your user name

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

from the url sheme : ftp://[e-mail] or
ftp://username:[e-mail] is valid. 
What should Mozilla do with an additional "usersite" ?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Frank, the FTP url in question already has a username included in it; this is
the username that needs to be sent to the server.  If you want us to prompt you
for a username, try not including it in the URL?

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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