IE FTP:// broken? Please help.

[Craig Hindall]

Ok here is the scenario....

I have an IE browser (tried 5.5, 6, 6.0sp1. I am trying
to connect to our IIS 5.0 FTP server using the format
ftp://<username>:<password>@<hostname>/<filename>. Every
time I click on the link IE will give me page cannot be
displayed. On that same IE window if I reopen the same
above link the file will download. It just seems when I
first open the Ie window it will fail. This does not
happen on Netscape or Mozilla. Every time I click the
link or open the link in Netscape or Mozilla there is no
problem downloading the file. But in Internet explorer
the first try will always fail. Any suggestions, I have
tried clearing the Temp Internet files, lowering
security, turning on and off folder views, nothing seems
to remove this error. Any help would be appreciated.

Craig Hindall
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Mark]

Craig:
I'm having the same problem---constantly, but you get
further than I do! I click on the links on home page of
MSIE & still get ERROR 404! Not including all the spam &
freeze ups. Face it. MS cares less about anyone or
anything except themselves. So, if you know of a way to
totally remove MSIE let me know. I'm going to switch to
Netscape. I don't get this type of problem with Nestcape
either so if MS would lose about a few million people who
use MSIE or MSN & switch to something else maybe then
they'd do something. I heard the "red hat" from lynx is
going to be as good or better than Windows XP. If it is,
I'll be switching.
Good Luck
Mark

 

[Craig Hindall]

Any other ideas?

Craig:
I'm having the same problem---constantly, but you get
further than I do! I click on the links on home page of
MSIE & still get ERROR 404! Not including all the spam &
freeze ups. Face it. MS cares less about anyone or
anything except themselves. So, if you know of a way to
totally remove MSIE let me know. I'm going to switch to
Netscape. I don't get this type of problem with Nestcape
either so if MS would lose about a few million people who
use MSIE or MSN & switch to something else maybe then
they'd do something. I heard the "red hat" from lynx is
going to be as good or better than Windows XP. If it is,
I'll be switching.
Good Luck
Mark