DIRECOTRY BROWSING MICROSOFT WEBMATRIX FULLObservations: A truly great feature of Internet Explorer's FTP browsing experience is the "Open FTP Site in Windows Explorer" integration, where you can switch from the web browser representation to a full Read/Write Windows Explorer view of your site. There is no method for entering custom commands, so HOST does not work. Virtual Hosts: You can create a connection to an FTP7 virtual host only if a "Global Listener" FTP site is created that requires authentication, after which you can enter the "sitename|username" syntax to connect to the virtual host. FTP SSL/TLS: SSL connections cannot be created by this client. That being said, Internet Explorer works with both MS-DOS and UNIX directory listings, and has no trouble with four-digit years like Firefox. (In fact, it looks a lot like the built-in IIS directory browsing pages.) But that being said, Internet Explorer's FTP browsing experience is completely no-frills - it's an ugly "What You Have Is What You See" approach to viewing your FTP site. Internet Explorer 7.0 Directory Browsing: Internet Explorer works with both MS-DOS and UNIX directory listings. So I used Firefox to browse an FTP site, then completely closed Firefox, then when I came back I saw directory listings from my previous session instead of updated directory listings until I forced a refresh. One last annoyance is that my default installation of Firefox cached the directory listings from the FTP server in between sessions. That's really odd, and it doesn't seem to break anything, but it sure is annoying. Observations: One really odd thing that Firefox does is allow you to keep hitting the "Up to a higher level directory" link and it just keeps appending "." to the path. Outside of that problem, Firefox has a great user experience for browsing FTP sites that's very reminiscent of Apache's Fancy Indexing feature for directories that have no home page. That said, I was able to use version 3.0.2 with MS-DOS directory listings but only when I did not enable four-digit years if you enable four-digit years, Firefox will only display blank directory listings. Firefox 3.0.2 Directory Browsing: Some older Firefox versions only worked with UNIX directory listings - you could not use MS-DOS directory listings. See the individual client notes below for more information on each client. In any event, here's a summary table of different features that I tested with a few web browsers: Client Name DIRECOTRY BROWSING MICROSOFT WEBMATRIX SERIESI thought that I'd begin this series with an examination of several web browsers, which are really not the best FTP clients around - web browsers are mostly just "putting a pretty face" on an FTP site rather than functioning as an FTP client. Since we've been testing a lot of FTP clients with our new FTP server for IIS 7, I thought that it would be a good idea to discuss some of the highlights and pitfalls that we have run into when testing various clients.
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