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Date:      Wed, 13 Sep 2000 22:26:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tony Fleisher <takhus@takhus.mind.net>
To:        Greg Hormann-GJ/PGI <hormann.gj@pg.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FTP + IE5 question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009132224480.3435-100000@takhus-home.ashlandfn.org>
In-Reply-To: <OFB3114819.728E85DE-ON85256959.003ECBC3@na.pg.com>

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On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Greg Hormann-GJ/PGI wrote:
> 
> 
> The simplest solution to this problem seem an IE url.
> (http://user@host/var/hold/app_log/file.log). Unfortunately, with this URL, IE5
> assumes that "/" is /home/$user.  After looking at some technical documents on
> URLs, I can't figure out how to override this?
> 

I think that you need to use ftp:// rather than http:// so that you will
access via the ftp server rather than the web server.  I am not sure about
IE, but this works to get paths into the root of the file system in
Netscape.

Regards,

TOny.



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