SR> If memory serves me right, at the time, the Internet Engineering SR> Draft that defined the URL syntax allowed for no way to specify SR> the username that you wished to use to access the remote file. kifer> I dunno about the IED, but Netscape has been supporting the kifer> ftp://user＠machine/path syntax for many years now. There is no These things are well-specified in RFC-1738, published in December 1994. See, in particular, section 3.1 et seq. -- bill(a)carpenter.ORG (WJCarpenter) PGP bill(a)bubblegum.net 0x91865119 38 95 1B 69 C9 C6 3D 25 73 46 32 04 69 D6 ED F3