It looks like the first message might be a browser warning, which is correct, because you are (with a vanilla installation) sending a password unencrypted. If it indeed is a browser warning, than you'd get rid of the warning by changing your browser configuration. If you want to fix the issue, and send your password encrypted, you need to install the securelogin module.
The second message is also a common one: The automatic installation of a theme requires that your server runs a ftp server. I consider that a security risk, so I prefer not to use the automatic theme/module installation through the interface, but install these using drush on the command line. It is also much faster than using the interface.
Best regards, Ursula
2011/7/12 J ZHANG jzhang8@clemson.edu
** I use xampp under Ubuntu 11, I delete the xampp once(everything works fine before this deletion), after I unzipped the xampp again and put drupal-7.4 under the htdocs directory.
some strange error happened:
warning you are not using an encrypted connection, so your password will be sent in plain text, ----
when I use the administrator account this time:
Failed to connect to server. The server reports the following message:--------------------- Cannot connect to FTP Server check settings. --------------------
any thoughts..... thanks..
this drupal setting almost kill me ....
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