Connecting Through A Browser

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If you would like to access BulletProof FTP Server using a web-browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Firefox. No Problem!

But you'll first have to get a handle on the URL's needed to access an FTP Server using a browser. By default Web-Browsers access servers using HTTP, this in contrast to FTP, but almost every web-browser supports FTP as well.

To access an FTP Server using a web-browser, you will need to use a URL using the FTP format:

• Example #1: ftp://myhost.mydomain.com

This will tell your web-browser to use FTP to login using the "anonymous" user account at the server "myhost.mydomain.com".

• Example #2: ftp://username:password@myhost.mydomain.com

This will instruct your web-browser to use FTP to login to "myhost.mydomain.com", but using the "username" and "password" for the account. These values will of course be dependant on the user-account you have setup in BulletProof FTP Server.

• Example #3: ftp://username@myhost.mydomain.com

This will perform exactly the same thing and Example #2, but as you can see, we are not passing the "password". When the web-browser logs into BulletProof FTP Server, it will pop-up a dialog box for the password.