FTP uploads through a browser GUI?

Is it possible to use a browser's builtin directory-viewing
capabilities to *upload* a file? The goal would be to be able to
"drag" a file's icon to a suitable area on the screen, and thereby
have this file FTP-uploaded to a remote server. Is this at all
possible with curent browsers?

TIA!

jill

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On 2005-03-19, J Krugman <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Is it possible to use a browser's builtin directory-viewing
> capabilities to *upload* a file?

If the browser supports it yes.
Davide

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On comp.os.linux.networking, in
<d1gglj$m9d$(E-Mail Removed)>, "J Krugman" wrote:

> Is it possible to use a browser's builtin
> directory-viewing capabilities to *upload* a file?
> The goal would be to be able to "drag" a file's icon
> to a suitable area on the screen, and thereby have
> this file FTP-uploaded to a remote server. Is this
> at all possible with curent browsers?
>
> TIA!
>
> jill
>

On some browsers you can.

But may I ask why you would want to? There are no graphics
on FTP sites, just directories full of files.

I suggest you use a regular FTP client. It is very simple:

You type 'ls' to see what's there (after you've logged in) 'cd'
to change directories, and when you want to download a file, 'get
filename' ; or 'put filename' to upload a file; or 'rm filename'
to delete it.

Those are just the basics, but all one usually needs.
Ncftp is the best ftp client I have ever used, by-the-way.

AC

J Krugman wrote:
> Is it possible to use a browser's builtin directory-viewing
> capabilities to *upload* a file? The goal would be to be able to
> "drag" a file's icon to a suitable area on the screen, and thereby
> have this file FTP-uploaded to a remote server. Is this at all
> possible with curent browsers?

if you're using kde. konqueror supports this. konqueror does almost
anything.


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In <BEQ_d.14367$(E-Mail Removed) .net> Alan Connor <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

>On comp.os.linux.networking, in
><d1gglj$m9d$(E-Mail Removed)>, "J Krugman" wrote:

>> Is it possible to use a browser's builtin
>> directory-viewing capabilities to *upload* a file?
>> The goal would be to be able to "drag" a file's icon
>> to a suitable area on the screen, and thereby have
>> this file FTP-uploaded to a remote server. Is this
>> at all possible with curent browsers?

>On some browsers you can.

>But may I ask why you would want to? There are no graphics
>on FTP sites, just directories full of files.

Oh, I much prefer the text-based FTP (or SFTP, rather), but my boss
recently saw a juryrigged, CGI-based file upload/download page at
a colleague's website that gave him a bad case of website-feature
envy. He wants me to produce a similar CGI gizmo for our site,
which seems nuts to me, but he da boss. If I can convince him that
one can get something that *looks* just as "good", but is already
built into the browser, does not use up my time, and uses a thoroughly
established protocol designed for the purpose, I think I can save
myself from having to code a useless and potentially dangerous
monstrosity.

>Ncftp is the best ftp client I have ever used, by-the-way.

A nice lagniappe. Thanks.

jill

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On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:41:03 +0000, J Krugman wrote:

> In <BEQ_d.14367$(E-Mail Removed) .net> Alan Connor
> <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>
>>On comp.os.linux.networking, in
>><d1gglj$m9d$(E-Mail Removed)>, "J Krugman" wrote:
>
>>> Is it possible to use a browser's builtin directory-viewing
>>> capabilities to *upload* a file? The goal would be to be able to
>>> "drag" a file's icon to a suitable area on the screen, and thereby
>>> have this file FTP-uploaded to a remote server. Is this at all
>>> possible with curent browsers?
>
>>On some browsers you can.
>
>>But may I ask why you would want to? There are no graphics on FTP sites,
>>just directories full of files.
>
> Oh, I much prefer the text-based FTP (or SFTP, rather), but my boss
> recently saw a juryrigged, CGI-based file upload/download page at a
> colleague's website that gave him a bad case of website-feature envy.
> He wants me to produce a similar CGI gizmo for our site, which seems
> nuts to me, but he da boss. If I can convince him that one can get
> something that *looks* just as "good", but is already built into the
> browser, does not use up my time, and uses a thoroughly established
> protocol designed for the purpose, I think I can save myself from having
> to code a useless and potentially dangerous monstrosity.

If the boss insists on having something, there are multiple php based
projects that do that kind of thing already. net2ftp is one :
http://www.net2ftp.com/

Googling for php ftp interface turns up quite a few more as well. I
haven't really looked, but there are probably others that don't depend on
ftp...
So, why reinvent the wheel ? Maybe something out there will suit your
needs. Or at least be close enough that you can tweak.


--
- Matt -

On comp.os.linux.networking, in <d1hdlv$ns4$(E-Mail Removed)>,
"J Krugman" wrote:

> In <BEQ_d.14367$(E-Mail Removed) .net> Alan
> Connor <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>
>>On comp.os.linux.networking, in
>><d1gglj$m9d$(E-Mail Removed)>, "J Krugman" wrote:
>
>>> Is it possible to use a browser's builtin directory-viewing
>>> capabilities to *upload* a file? The goal would be to be
>>> able to "drag" a file's icon to a suitable area on the
>>> screen, and thereby have this file FTP-uploaded to a remote
>>> server. Is this at all possible with curent browsers?
>
>>On some browsers you can.
>
>>But may I ask why you would want to? There are no graphics on
>>FTP sites, just directories full of files.
>
> Oh, I much prefer the text-based FTP (or SFTP, rather), but my
> boss recently saw a juryrigged, CGI-based file upload/download
> page at a colleague's website that gave him a bad case of
> website-feature envy.

<chortle>

> He wants me to produce a similar CGI
> gizmo for our site, which seems nuts to me, but he da boss. If
> I can convince him that one can get something that *looks* just
> as "good", but is already built into the browser, does not use
> up my time, and uses a thoroughly established protocol designed
> for the purpose, I think I can save myself from having to code
> a useless and potentially dangerous monstrosity.

Seems doable. Web interfaces s.*k for anything but webpages.

(and I usually use wget for them)

>
>>Ncftp is the best ftp client I have ever used, by-the-way.
>
> A nice lagniappe. Thanks.
>

http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/lagniappe

Pronunciation: lan'yap
[n] a small gift (especially one given by a merchant to a
customer who makes a purchase)

I love women who are smarter than I am :-)

AC

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On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:47:53 +0000, Alan Connor wrote:

[putulin]
>
> I love women who are smarter than I am :-)
>
> AC

I seems that everyone *IS* smarter than you

On comp.os.linux.networking, in <d61%d.14835$(E-Mail Removed) k.net>, "Alan Connor" wrote:
>
>
> On comp.os.linux.networking, in <d1hdlv$ns4$(E-Mail Removed)>,
> "J Krugman" wrote:
>
>> In <BEQ_d.14367$(E-Mail Removed) .net> Alan
>> Connor <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>>

<snip>

"Baho Utot..."

That alias has a troll score in my newsreader.

So I won't be reading its post. (And it has been deleted
from the local cache I read from.)

Trolls are dumb as bricks: They actually think everyone
has to read everything they post.


AC

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:56:51 +0000, Alan Connor wrote:

> On comp.os.linux.networking, in <d61%d.14835$(E-Mail Removed) k.net>, "Alan Connor" wrote:
>>
>>
>> On comp.os.linux.networking, in <d1hdlv$ns4$(E-Mail Removed)>,
>> "J Krugman" wrote:
>>
>>> In <BEQ_d.14367$(E-Mail Removed) .net> Alan
>>> Connor <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>>>
>
> <snip>
>
> "Baho Utot..."
>
> That alias has a troll score in my newsreader.
>
> So I won't be reading its post. (And it has been deleted
> from the local cache I read from.)
>
> Trolls are dumb as bricks: They actually think everyone
> has to read everything they post.
>
>
> AC

So what's your problem...... nut case!