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  • From: Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>
  • Cc: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL3.01 ftpput
  • Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:22:56 -0500 (EST)

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
>
>





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