[Web4lib] IE6 vs. IE7 as ftp client

[Micah Stevens]

This is true. I'm guessing here, but I assume this behavior is due to 
Microsoft being forced to separate out their browser product from the 
operating system. Originally Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer were 
practically one and the same. So when you typed in an FTP link, IE would 
take on the persona of Windows Explorer. Due to the anti-trust suits 
Microsoft has de-integrated (is that a word?) the browser product from 
the operating system, and it seems this is one of the results.

If you use Windows Explorer to open your FTP site, the drag and drop 
should work fine. It does for me.

-Micah

On 04/06/2007 07:53 AM, Thomas Dowling wrote:
> Did I dream this?
>
> In IE[4-6], I could open a URL of <ftp://user:password@host/dir> and IE
> acted as a reasonably useful FTP client, including the ability to drag
> files into the window and have them uploaded to the ftp site.
>
> In IE7, that behavior has changed (at least, for me on my PC with my
> settings).  Now I can open that ftp site, but when I drag a file into
> IE, IE opens it.  Understandable behavior, but an annoying change.  Ah,
> but now it tells me, "To view this FTP site in Windows Explorer, click
> Page and then click Open FTP Site in Windows Explorer."  Oookay.  Except
> in Microsoft's wisdom, Windows explorer then opens the site as anonymous
> ftp, losing the account information.
>
> Does anyone know how to use IE7 as a drag-and-drop ftp client?  Or has
> M'soft dumbed it down to far for that anymore?
>
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