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[Ian Scott <mriscott AT yahoo.co.uk>]

> wget does not like -u or user: followed by the user name.  
> 
> Is there some way to log into an ftp site with links or wget?  Neither 
> asks me for username or password.  

I suspect both would work with standard url passwording:

wget ftp://username:password@server//path/to/url

links http://username:password@server/path/to/file

N.B. this is a common hacker trick.

You get an email telling you to go to 
http://www.barclays.co.uk/account/details AT evilhacker.com/password.html and 
enter your secret bank passwords
 - but that is a page under evilhacker.com, not barclays.co.uk, because
everything before the @ in a url is considered to be logon details.

Ian