I think you'll find that "failure" is by design.  Passing this 
information as part of the url would be done in plain text and therefore 
allows for some security issues that were closed up about 12-18 months 
ago by dropping support for that functionality IIRC. I'm a bit fuzzy on 
all the details, but  I do recall the matter coming up at the office and 
we had to stop pushing links to people with that type of format.

Scott M. Day wrote:
> Has anyone noticed that Firefox will not connect using the standard 
> ftp://ftpname:ftppass at ftphost dot domain dot com? I have followed the 
> excellent Twiki article here on how to get FTP working like a champ: 
> http://wiki.m0n0.ch/wikka.php?wakka=PassiveFTP
>
> But still, everything is great - Firefox still flakes on us. Has 
> anyone else seen this happen, does anyone else care??
>
> Thanks for any input.
>
> -Scott
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