dropping support for ftp in Kolab 2

Martin Konold martin.konold at erfrakon.de
Mon Dec 13 09:43:24 CET 2004


Am Montag, 13. Dezember 2004 08:19 schrieb Andreas Gungl:


Hi Andreas,

> Uploading is not needed anymore IMHO. 

Good.

> But what about downloading via the 
> legacy FTP mechanism used in Kolab1? I have OL 2K clients which seem to
> have problems with authenticated HTML downloads of the FB data.

> I.e. if I 
> use a FTP URL like ftp://user:passwd@server/path , the clients can access
> the server. Using html://user:passwd@server/path OL can't access that

This should read http://user:passwd@server/path

> information although using exactly the same URL in IE gives a passwd dialog
> and downloads the data.
> Well, the mess in on M$ side. But what's the solution to handle that
> problem with Kolab 2?

I guess that we could trade in the removal of proftpd with an option in the 
webgui which allows unauthenticated http download of the fb lists.

Regards,
-- martin

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