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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Ian Scott wrote:

> > 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


The wget worked perfectly, once I stopped putting ~keesan in the path and 
just gave the name of the file in my home directory.
In the example for links, did you mean to have a // before path?


> 
> 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
> 
>