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FTP through a browser?
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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When surfing the web on a Windows PC using Internet Explorer, you can click on a link to an FTP address and access the FTP site through the Internet Explorer browser.
Is there anyway to access an FTP site through a browser in Mac OS X the very same way? If not how else can I use FTP easily without using something like Fetch or Terminal?
Thanks!
jX
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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If you have all the details for the FTP you can use apple+k in the finder.
Only just found out about this one, kinda cool.
Bummer Safari can't do it.
MM-o4
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
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When you click an FTP link in Safari, it launches it in the Finder. No need to go through Connect To Server...
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okay, maybe this deserves a new topic.
I've been racking my brain and my unix-cluster-admin brother on how to set up my cube to be a ftp server (or http server for that matter) over my airport/cable isp with no luck.
I've started web and ftp serving in the system preferences. I've mapped port 80 to the outside ip. I've pinged the outside ip with success.
However, my brother who's off my network can not see my index... also I do not understand where I should locate my ftp files... plus I'm not sure whether I need to create user accounts for those that I want to give access
My core need is that I use the idisk/public folder, with a password, for client access. Now I have two clients, and found that idisk and .mac do not support password protection of two sub folders in my public folder. Each client can see the others stuff.
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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Port 80 is for http: IIRC it's port 21 for FTP.
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What the nerd community most often fail to realize is that all features aren't equal. A well implemented and well integrated feature in a convenient interface is worth way more than the same feature implemented crappy, or accessed through a annoying interface.
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Join Date: Oct 1999
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Part of your confusion may be that the way web browsers handle ftp is to embed a ftp client into the browser. They are doing all of the work on port 21... not 80.
If all you want to do is to share out files over the web, then apache (the web server) can handle that fine... just allow directory indexes and don't put in an index file. There is a lot of documentation on apache's site: httpd.apache.org.
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