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Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 15:19:03 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Eric Barrett" <eric.barrett@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: FTP URL spec for upgrade script
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Thanks Eric.

What I need to know is the exact URL that customers would have to type
in to get the Delorean release.  The path I assume would not change
over time, but the name of the tarball would change with each release?

Thanks,

a

On Thu, 17 May 2007 13:03:53 -0700 "Eric Barrett"
<eric.barrett@onstor.com> wrote:

> Here's the long description:
> 
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ftpurl.html
> 
> 
> The short one is:
> 
> Anonymous (login: "anonymous", password: "guest@"):
>     ftp://HOST/path/to/file
> 
> With a username/password:
>     ftp://USER:PASSWORD@HOST/path/to/file
> 
> 
> The path ("path/to/file" in my example) is relative.  That is, if a
> user's homedir is /home/joe, then path/to/file is treated by every
> browser I've ever used as /home/joe/path/to/file, probably because
> they just do a series of relative CDs.
> 
> Here's an example link from our support site:
> 
> ftp://support.onstor.com/outbound/software/EverON/early/2.2.2.4/22xx/Eve
> rON-2.2.2.4BC.tar.gz
> 
> Or from the internal upgrade server, which uses a username/password:
> 
> ftp://upgrade:password@10.2.0.2/PATCHES/EverON-2.2.2.4BC.tar.gz 
> 
> If you want to be really spiffy, then leaving out the password
> ("ftp://upgrade@10.2.0.2...") would make the script prompt you for it,
> so that users don't have to enter in in plain sight, as they do with
> the current NFXSH upgrade command.  But that's not necessary, just
> nice-to-have.
> 
> -Eric
