Re: ftp and Nautilus

[Laszlo Kovacs <Laszlo Kovacs Sun COM>]

All I plan to do here is to log in as either anonymous or with a 
username. First time the user will get a dialog where they can make a 
pick (if there is no username in the uri). If they pick anonymous then 
they are logged in, or refused if anonymous is not allowed. Refused 
means they will get the dialog again (slightly altered, no anonymous 
tick boxes) to log in with a username. If they want to abandon the 
process they need to press Cancel.

No automatic login with anonymous and then re-login with username is 
planned.

Laszlo

Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote:
> > However I have to admit I'm
> > dubious about that idea myself.
>
> me too
>
>
> >  It must inevitably lead to an
> > additional delay before the dialog is displayed,
>
> for once =)
>
>
> > which is rarely a good
> > way to enhance usability, and wouldn't it also temporarily use up an FTP
> > connection (possibly even the last available one) that somebody else
> > could be using?
>
>
> well the idea is not practicable at all unless gnomevfs has a way of
> issuing "user/password" ftp commands once you've successfully logged in
> anonymously, so as to not connect/disconnect from the FTP server.  in
> simpler terms, "pre detection" of anon login capability will only fly if
> gnomevfs lets us log in as anonymous, then relogin without
> disconnecting.
>
>
> > Cheeri,
> > Calum.