From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 13 22:26:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ego.mind.net (ego.mind.net [206.99.66.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 580F037B42C for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 22:26:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from takhus-home.ashlandfn.org (CascadeInvestmentCouncil3.ashlandfiber.net [208.46.219.24] (may be forged)) by ego.mind.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA13681; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 22:26:49 -0700 Received: from localhost (fleisher@localhost) by takhus-home.ashlandfn.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8E5QkP03626; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 22:26:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from takhus@takhus.mind.net) X-Authentication-Warning: takhus-home.ashlandfn.org: fleisher owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 22:26:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Tony Fleisher X-Sender: fleisher@takhus-home.ashlandfn.org To: Greg Hormann-GJ/PGI Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP + IE5 question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message