Subject: RE: Netscape ftp upload to NetBSD
To: 'perry@piermont.com' <perry@piermont.com>
From: Scott R. Burns <Scott.Burns@Netcontech.Com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/02/1999 11:30:52
Yes. That is correct. When you drag onto a netscape window, with an ftp =
site up on the screen, it asks if you want to upload to that site. Once =
it starts to upload, that is when I receive the message shown below.

Scott...



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From: 	Perry E. Metzger[SMTP:perry@piermont.com]
Reply To: 	perry@piermont.com
Sent: 	Tuesday, February 02, 1999 10:12 AM
To: 	Scott R. Burns
Cc: 	'netbsd-help@netbsd.org'
Subject: 	Re: Netscape ftp upload to NetBSD


I'm not even certain that I understand clearly what it is that you are=20
trying to do. "Drag off Windows explorer to the Netscape window"????

"Scott R. Burns" <Scott.Burns@Netcontech.Com> writes:
> I am attempting to setup transfer areas for our clients via our NetBSD =
firewall. I would like them to use the ftp syntax under say NetScape of:
>=20
> ftp://USERNAME:PASSWORD@ftp.whatever.com
>=20
> I seem to be able to drag off of Windows explorer to the Netscape =
window but it tell me that the request was unsupported:
>=20
> The following error was encountered:=20
>=20
>      Unsupported request=20
>=20
> This means that:=20
>=20
>     This request method is not supported for this protocol.
>=20
> Any idea how I can get a ftpd daemon that will work ? Is it a config =
thing or do I need a different ftp daemon.
>=20
> Scott...