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From: JonWayne (jongunn_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 11/02/04


Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 03:20:21 -0500

I have a scenario which has been a problem for quite some time. I have an
FTP site that I download files from daily. I find that there are 3 variants
to the site address which gives 3 different results when entered manually
into IE's address box. The address format that was supplied to me, and which
works is ftp://somename@IPAddress. However, by experimenting, I found that
if "ftp://" is omitted, an http page opens, not what I want. Also, the
format, ftp://IpAddress, opens an FTP page different from the desired page.
IOW, the folders and files that are displayed here are different from the
ones I need.

The problem is, I wrote some code to automate the downloading process.
Whenever I pass somename@IpAddress as the sUserName argument of the
InternetConnect API function, it fails. Passing IpAddress as that arg
succeeds but the correct files and folders are not there, instead different
ones are, the ones I mentioned earlier.

Is anyone here familiar with this kind of behavior and knows what is going
on. Please enlighten me and let me in on the fix.

Thank you



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