Re: A modest proposal for access authentication

eostrom@gac.edu (Erik Ostrom)
From: eostrom@gac.edu (Erik Ostrom)
Message-id: <9309171346.AA03283@gac.edu>
Subject: Re: A modest proposal for access authentication
To: M.T.Hamilton@lut.ac.uk (Martin Hamilton)
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1993 08:46:36 (CDT)
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
In-reply-to: <Pine.3.07.9309170755.C13439-c100000@avarice> from "Martin Hamilton" at Sep 17, 93 07:29:55 am
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> > a) add a new kind of URL:    FTPU://host/path
> >    this URL is like FTP: except that it assumes that the user will
> > supply a user name and password, i.e., not anonymous access
> 
> how about <ftp://martin@genie.lut.ac.uk/whatever> ?

Except that if you give me this URL, I get logged in as martin
(assuming I know your password).  The FTPU scheme says "log in as
yourself".  So you could have data readable by both martin and
eostrom, and point to it with the URL
    <FTPU://genie.lut.ac.uk/whatever>
and both you and I could get at it without my having to know your
password or vice versa.