On Jan 12, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Dan Crutcher wrote:
Usually, when I ask someone who uses Windows how they connect to an FTP site they say they use Internet Explorer to do so, rather than a dedicated FTP program like Fetch. So I am trying to make this work for someone using IE as their FTP program. I find that when I try to access the server in IE by typing "ftp://servername"; into the URLwindow I get an "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" message.
Older versions of IE supported easy "drag & drop" ftp access, but Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, crippled the ftp in IE7. They now want you to use Windows Explorer. (Many people have switched to Firefox or Opera for this reason.) I suspect those Windows users who say they use IE are living in the past.
When I tell IE7 to get ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED], a dialog pops up saying something like "To view this FTP site in Windows Explorer, click Page, and then Open FTP Site in Windows Explorer." This is a deliberate feature, not a flaw in IE7.
By the way, if your site is externally accessible, I recommend you turn off ftp and turn on sftp or scp so all your traffic (including passwords) doesn't travel naked over the Internet.
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