Secure FTP URL question

[pendell]

So I'm working with someone who has a secure FTP site and wants to access it via an URL.

If this was standard, old-school FTP, we'd do it this way:

ftp://username:password@<ip address>:port

But this isn't FTP. This is secure ftp, which as I understand it runs on top of ssh.

Your standard IE browser allows you to do ftp:// or http:// or https:// , and a handful of others, but there is no sftp:// protocol.

A quick google suggests that we're going to have to go grab filezilla or some other such FTP client -- we can't just type it into a standard IE or Firefox browser.

Is this correct? Or have I missed something obvious?

Respectfully,

Brian P.

[lesser_minion]

Yes, that's right. SFTP is actually an extension for allowing file transfers over an SSH connection, which is totally outside the scope of what web browsers are supposed to deal with.

According to wikipedia, there is another kind of secure FTP that runs on SSL (FTPS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTPS)). I'm not sure how well browsers support it though.

[pendell]

Thanks, lesser_minion. Did you change your avatar? I could swear I remember it as a necromancer.

Respectfully,

Brian P.

[lesser_minion]

Yes. And you're right, it was a necromancer before.