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FTP tutorial using Safari on a Mac
In reply to noirdesir,
7 months ago
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noirdesir wrote:
mstecker wrote:
Howard Moftich wrote:
if you open a Terminal, you can use command line FTP but most people are not comfortable w/ command line anything. You can download a graphical FTP client like Filezilla (free) or there are others (some free, some not so free).
or in Safari do a ftp://some.ftp.server/x/y/z kind of thing which will log you in (guest or registered) and then open a Finder window that lets you drag-n-drop.
Thank you Howard,
I think that using Safari for FTP would be OK, since I now use Internet Explorer to upload files via FTP with my Windows computer. But, will Safari on the Mac allow one to actually upload (copy) files to the web server from the Mac Finder, or is it like Command-k which only allows one to download files from the server to the Mac HDD? Obviously uploading to the server via FTP is what I do the most.
I don't know for certain, I only remember that when OS X (ie, the Finder via connect to server and Safari) gained FTP capabilities many, many years ago it was originally only download access. My memory is vague whether upload capabilities were added later but considered too flakey so that nobody used them or whether they were never added (beyond the command line).
Either way, basically everybody is using either a dedicated FTP client or a FUSE-base system (File system in User SpacE). The latter mounts a wide varieties of servers as a local volume. In this category there are commercial ones like ExpanDrive or open-source ones like MacFusion (http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/24768/macfusion) which needs either MacFuse (http://www.tuxera.com/mac/macfuse-core-10.5-2.1.9.dmg) or OSXFUSE (http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/40156/osxfuse) as a backend. Currently OSXFUSE seems to be the only one to still receive updates.
Whether you go for separate FTP client or a FUSE-based system is your choice. I generally find dedicated FTP clients to be faster but the mounting as local volume has certainly its advantages as well.
I have not tried it yet, but apparently one can both upload and download files via FTP with Safari according to this MacMost YouTube tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24ebkMc6v34
Mike
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