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install/57990: sysinst confusingly suggests user name and password for http set download
>Number: 57990
>Category: install
>Synopsis: sysinst confusingly suggests user name and password for http set download
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: install-manager
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sun Mar 03 03:55:00 +0000 2024
>Originator: Taylor R Campbell
>Release: current (10.99.4)
>Organization:
The NetFTP Foundation
>Environment:
>Description:
I selected HTTP to download sets, and I see:
The following are the http site, directory, user, and password that will be
used. If "user" is "ftp", then the password is not needed.
...
f: User ftp
g: Password
This is confusing:
- http basic authentication (which is what I assume is done here if you set user/password to anything else) is a pretty obscure thing that is hardly ever used, not likely relevant to anyone hosting sets
- it's confusing for it to be called `ftp' when we're doing http
- in principle it appears there's no way to use http basic authentication with a username of `ftp' and an empty password, i.e., to fetch the URL http://ftp@whatever/... instead of http://whatever/...
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Yes, please!
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