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9 Responses to “How to use Safari to FTP”

1. steve says:

   Oct 3 at 1:52 pm

   thanks, helpful.

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2. FTP - free or low-cost solutions for getting your files where they belong | At Your Service Cincinnati, Ltd. says:

   Jan 2 at 8:59 am

   [...] MacMost.com has a nice tutorial on how to FTP in Safari: [...]

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3. TG says:

   Oct 12 at 8:46 pm

   That doesn’t work for me, strangely it just opens Firefox and tries the url ‘ftp://domainname.co.uk’ which then says it cannot connect – how come it opens firefox?

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   • Gary Rosenzweig says:

     Oct 12 at 9:38 pm

     You probably have Firefox set as the application to handle FTP. I think Firefox might do that with a standard install.

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4. charm says:

   Oct 17 at 7:12 pm

   it does not allow me to drag files over (ie. read only). how can i change this?

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   • Gary Rosenzweig says:

     Oct 17 at 8:22 pm

     Right. You need a different program to do that. See episode 228 for an example.

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5. Eric says:

   Apr 14 at 6:15 pm

   What a Crock, It obviously did not work for the woman in the video either!

   I tried it and it kept re-logging into our ftp and repeatedly requested a directory listing. When I tried to stop it, it just hung there forever.

   MAC’s don’t crash, they just hang indefinitely.

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6. /T says:

   Jul 9 at 6:48 pm

   this doesn’t work because when you drag a file i get a red x. or safari tries to open it or display it. how do you ftp using safari? i don’t want to look at the files i want to upload. thanks, /T

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   • Gary Rosenzweig says:

     Jul 9 at 7:03 pm

     You can’t upload this way, only download. See episode 228 (http://macmost.com/ftp-with-cyberduck.html) for an example of a program you can use to upload.

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