Subject: Re: bug#15058: 24.3; ftp is still broken

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 14:23:22 -0400

>> Really?  When was /HOST: syntax deprecated?
> It wasn't.

We slightly changed the way it works because of the ambiguity between
/HOST: and /METHOD:, so IIRC /HOST: still works fine, but only if HOST
is not also a valid METHOD.  So you need "/ftp:ftp" in order to connect
to a host named "ftp".

        Stefan