[Web4lib] is FTP with a browser really FTP

[Cary Gordon]

FTP and HTTP are separate protocols and work differently. Most modern  
web browsers, including IE 7, have an inbuilt FTP client.

That said, IE7 does not have a particularly good FTP client. This is  
part of Microsoft's self-fulfilling prophecy that splitting IE and the  
Windows OS would spoil everything.

Cary Gordon
The Cherry Hill Company
http://www.chillco.com




On Jul 7, 2008, at 8:41 AM, John Fitzgibbon wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I work from behind a firewall. FTP from the command line is blocked.  
> However, if I open an FTP session with my browser by typing ftp://  
> for the protocol it works unhindered by the firewall.
>
> Does Internet Explorer 7 process FTP requests through HTTP or is  
> there something else going on?
>
> Regards
> John
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