Redirect to secure FTP site via response.redirect

[Ron Howard]

I am trying to use the following in an ASP page to redirect a user to a
non-anonymous FTP site:

response.redirect("ftp://myusername:[email protected]")

but I keep getting a "permission denied" error. If I just put the same
address string in IE6's Address box and go to it, IE opens myusername's FTP
home page just fine, so I know the FTP site is working as expected. Also,
if I put in an anonymous ftp site, without the username and password (e.g.
"ftp://ftp.microsoft.com"), the redirect works fine, too.

I don't want the user to be prompted by IE for the username and password at
the FTP site, so I am providing them from within the web site.

What can be preventing the response.redirect from handling non-anonymous FTP
access? Is there a better way to do this?

 

[Carol]

maybe send them to a frames page, with one of the frames being the FTP URL
I love the old Andy Griffith shows

 

[Ron Howard]

Further findings:

If I redirect to a login/password-protected ftp site at a different hosting
service, the response.redirect works OK. The ftp site I have been trying to
redirect to is hosted on the same site as the web/ASP site, which uses IIS
6.0. I am using IE6 (lastest updates) to test the ASP code.

Also, it works as expected (i.e. redirected to the IIS 6.0 server's secure
ftp site) while testing with a Mozilla browser under Fedora Linux.

The response.redirect failure seems to have something to do with the
combination of IIS 6.0 and IE6, and the fact that the ftp site is on the
same web server as the ASP script. Any ideas? Is there some IIS
configuration hint I can pass along to the web host service provider?

- Ron