I guess the reasoning is that in FTP mode you're really just reading a virtual filesystem via the ftp IO slave. So in other words, HTTP is like your normal web browser, FTP is like your normal file manager program. It's just a matter of paradigm.
Does that makes sense??? - Josh > > it is possible to extent the context menu of the konqueror's ftp-mode > by an item "Save Link as..."? It disturbs me that in html-mode files > can be saved by "Save Link as..." and in ftp-mode I have to copy-and- > paste the file.

