Re: A modest proposal for access authentication

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To: M.T.Hamilton@lut.ac.uk
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In-reply-to: Martin Hamilton's message of Thu, 16 Sep 1993 23:29:55 -0700 <Pine.3.07.9309170755.C13439-c100000@avarice>
Subject: Re: A modest proposal for access authentication
From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
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Date: 	Fri, 17 Sep 1993 09:54:48 PDT
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> how about <ftp://martin@genie.lut.ac.uk/whatever> ?
> i think this is in the URL draft...

In the example you give, the username for FTP is part of the URL.
Maybe you could just extend <ftp://@genie.lut.ac.uk/whatever> to mean
'prompt for user name' instead of 'use the empty user name', and not
have to invent a new kind of URL.