^ the site from which i am trying to grab files from doesn't require authentication.
maybe this problem's got something to do with the broken/slow servers fileserve has, don't you think? in fact a tiny fraction of my files, from what i can gather, are on those servers. say i am going to download 100 of my files, 1-5 of them will fail or will take ages to complete. so i thought same thing goes with remote upload.