Question : Hide Username & Password in FTP URL

I am creating a webpage from within SharePoint that needs to have a link that goes out to a FTP server.
I know how to the ftp://username:password@ftpdomain.com, but the problem is that I don't want my users to see the username & password.
If there is an easy way, that is great.  But from what I can read I need to do something with PHP or ASP.  Problem is that I am not sure even how do start that.  For example, would I do the code from with the HTML on the SharePoint web page?  Guidance & solution would be greatly appreciated.

If it makes a difference for this, I am using MOSS 2007.

Answer : Hide Username & Password in FTP URL

Based on your requirements this is impossible.  Any link on a page that is sent to the user will have the user name and password within it.  You can obfuscate the link with JavaScript but as soon as the link is clickable they can use 'Copy Shortcut' to get the entire link including the username password.

BTW: FTP is a very old insecure protocol that has this flaw.  Anyone can install Fiddler or Wireshark and watch for the FTP request that has the username password.  FTP doesn't support SSL so you can't block it.