[ale] problem with ftp

[Joe Steele]

I'm familiar with the changes at Mindspring, but not with using 
Konqueror or Kwrite for access, so I'm strictly guessing --

Since URLs use a % symbol to escape certain unsafe or reserved 
characters, it might be that the same escape mechanism applies to 
your usage.  Have you tried replacing the % character with '%25' (the 
ASCII code for % is 25 hex)?  For example:
user1234%25yourwebsite.com

Of course, if you are actually using that in URL format, it would be:

ftp://user1234%25yourwebsite.com@ftp.business.earthlink.net/

If that doesn't do it, you could use tcpdump to capture the 
communication to a file and then use strings to see what's going on 
with the ftp authentication.

--Joe

-----Original Message-----
From:	Irv [SMTP:irvm at ellijay.com]
Sent:	Monday, November 12, 2001 3:39 PM
To:	ale at ale.org
Subject:	[ale] problem with ftp

Hi:

Mindspring is changing its ftp servers over to earthlink addresses, 
and now Konqueror, Kwrite, etc. which work fine otherwise 
refuse to authenticate to the new server. Good ole ftp works ok, which 
verifies that I'm using the right ftp.addr, user name, and passwd.

Could this have anything to do with the fact that they changed 
their user id's from, for example: "user1234 at yourwebsite.com"" to
"user1234%yourwebsite.com" ?  (I'm wondering if the percent mark 
may cause problems with the xWindows programs, but has no affect on 
text mode proggies? Or am I looking in the wrong place?)

Thanks for any insight.
Irv

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