[X4U] Browser for ftp?

Daly Jessup jessup at san.rr.com
Fri Feb 24 07:12:48 PST 2006


At 6:55 AM -0800 2/24/06, Mark Phillips wrote:
>If they are MacOS X 10.3 or higher, this might work: Use the ftp 
>client built into the OS.
>
>Pull down the Go menu and select Connect to Server. In the server 
>address field, enter your URL and click the Connect button. The 
>Finder will attempt to log on and "mount" the ftp site. If it works, 
>the ftp directory will be displayed as a common Finder window.
>
>When the window is opened, drag the file into the window area. The 
>upload should take place.
>
>I haven't tried this before. In some versions of OS X you could 
>download but not upload.
>
>Send me, off list, the proper URL and I will try it for you by 
>uploading the "Bat Signal" jpg.
>
>BTW, for most FTP transfers I have come to rely on Transmit. There 
>are several good ftp clients and the built-in one is good too. I 
>just prefer the Transmit interface.

I, too, use Transmit. But I have never seen a version of OS X that 
allows uploads with the Finder FTP.  Have you really seen one? Do you 
know which version of OS X allowed the uploads in the Finder? I would 
love to be able to do that.

Daly


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