FTP login from Konqueror URL, with an email address as username

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Thursday, January 26th 2006, 8:58pm

Hi all,

We all know and love the feature in konqueror where you can log into an ftp server by typing

ftp://user:password@ftp.someserver.org

into the URL field. My problem is that the username I've been given for an ftp site I use, is in
the form of an email-address. This means that I should type:

ftp://user@myemail:password@ftp.someserver.org

Two @ symbols in the URL obviously doesn't work. Now, my question is, is there any way at
all to use konqueror as an ftp client with this username, or am I stuck using ncftp from the command
line?

I.

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Iskendar" (Feb 9th 2006, 10:35am)

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mart_k

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Friday, January 27th 2006, 7:47am

RE: FTP login from Konqueror URL, with an email address as username

If you go to ftp://ftp.someserver.org, it will proberbly prompt for a username and password. In that box, you can enter an username containing an @.

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Iskendar

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Friday, January 27th 2006, 8:54am

RE: FTP login from Konqueror URL, with an email address as username

Quoted

Originally posted by mart_k
If you go to ftp://ftp.someserver.org, it will proberbly prompt for a username and password. In that box, you can enter an username containing an @.

Tried it. Got the following error message:

Source code

ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved
 The FTP server was too busy while trying to retrieve the URL: ftp://ftp.someserver.org/ 
Squid sent the following FTP command: 
USER anonymous

and then received this reply 
Unable to set up secure anonymous FTP
Your cache administrator is root.-

I.

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mart_k

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Friday, January 27th 2006, 9:16am

RE: FTP login from Konqueror URL, with an email address as username

Ok: it tries the user anonymous. You can also try:

ftp://foo@ftp.server.org
ftp://"user@domain":password@ftp.somedomain.org

If you use (1) you will be prompted for a password, and hopefully you can also change the username.

If you use (2) I hope that by quoting the username, the long username is used.

I don't know if one of those two will work, but I think it is worth trying.

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Iskendar

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Friday, January 27th 2006, 10:14am

RE: FTP login from Konqueror URL, with an email address as username

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Originally posted by mart_k
Ok: it tries the user anonymous. You can also try:
ftp://foo@ftp.server.org
ftp://"user@domain":password@ftp.somedomain.org

If you use (1) you will be prompted for a password, and hopefully you can also change the username.

If you use (2) I hope that by quoting the username, the long username is used.

I don't know if one of those two will work, but I think it is worth trying.

Too bad, in (1) you can't change the username, and (2) doesn't get processed, just like the
version without quotes.

I.

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Iskendar

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Thursday, February 9th 2006, 10:35am

RE: FTP login from Konqueror URL, with an email address as username

<bump>

Really, is there noone who can tell me how to make this work? Or if it can be made to
work at all? Maybe I should check out the developers list?

I.

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