[Info-vax] Working on Chromium's FTP code, testing with VMS FTP servers

[P. Sture]

In article <00A91BBD.D72960CD at SendSpamHere.ORG>,
 VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

> Safari doesn't do FTP.  You configure a default application for Safari 
> to launch to do FTP.  Some use the Finder which makes the FTP session
> appear as a mapped network drive.  Some use another FTP agent such as
> CyberDuck (silly name but it works fairly well).  I have mine default
> to launching the FTP session in iTerm.  I suppose, if you wanted, you
> could have it launch another browser.  I'm fairly confident within the
> iTerm FTP that I can get and put files regardless of the server's OS,
> so I don't worry that there's no point-and-click GUI front-end compli-
> cating things.

I haven't tied it since I upgrade to 10.5 (Leopard), but under 10.4 
(Tiger), the default Safari configuration launched Finder which even if 
you were looking at smallish text files gave incessant nagging messages 
about performance; IIRC two nags per file accessed, which had me 
reaching for CLI FTP pretty quickly.

For batch FTP on OS X I use NcFTP

<http://www.ncftp.com/>

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Paul Sture