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How To Use FTP Without Installing FTP Client Software

Posted By Raymond In Category: Computer

Oct
20
2008

Two years ago when I was working in a government education facility where FTP port 21 was blocked and I couldn’t upload images to my blog. I had to find a way to do it and I found web based FTP called Web2FTP. Web2FTP works flawless because it uses port 80 which most firewalls allow but the only con is you have to trust that the website will not record or keep your FTP login details. Basically the Web2FTP acts like a middle man. Whatever I upload to Web2FTP, it will upload to my FTP server and whatever I download, it will download from my FTP server and then send it to me when it has finished receiving the file.

One way to FTP without installing any FTP client software such as FlashFXP or FileZilla is to install FireFTP add-on in Firefox. FireFTP looks impressive but I didn’t want to have anymore add-ons installed as my Firefox is taking up really a lot (200+MB) of memory usage.

Here is another way to use FTP without installing FTP client software.


AnyClient is a free platform independent file transfer application that supports all major file transfer protocols including FTP/S, SFTP and WebDAV/S. AnyClient is available both as a web based service requiring no software installation, and as a downloadable application that you can install locally.

Anyclient web based Java FTP

To launch AnyClient application as a service, click on the Applet tab. To connect to a site, click the Connect button to display the Site Manager dialog and create a new site profile or connect to an existing site profile. Alternatively, you can download the AnyClient installer click on the Download tab above. To connect to a site, click the Connect button to display the Site Manager dialog and create a new site profile or connect to an existing site profile.

Anyclient Site Manager

AnyClient can store a site profile of the sites you connect to locally on your computer. This way the next time you load AnyClient you can quickly connect to any saved site profile. All site profile information is saved locally on your computer and cannot be seen by users other than yourself.

AnyClient supports several secure protocols which encrypt your data during transit including FTPS (FTP over SSL), SFTP/SSH and secure WebDAV via HTTPS. Since AnyClient runs on Java, it can run on any web browser on any operating system as long as it has Java Runtime installed. A lot of modern computers should have Java Runtime Environment installed (JRE).

[ Run AnyClient FTP in Browser ]


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    • Prashanth

      Thanks Raymond.
      In case I was in such a situation without any 3rd party programs, I’d use the command line.

    • http://www.jashsoft.com Jash Sayani

      Nice alternative, but its better to uploads the file later rather than trusting 3rd party sites with the login credentials….

    • Michael Y

      Im having a really hard time understanding the difference between FTP sites and normal sites.
      All I know is that FTP can resume, is it also that FTP sites actually host the files?

    • http://www.raymond.cc/ Raymond

      Yeah Prashanth, for us geeks, we definitely us the built-in Windows FTP command line if port 21 is not blocked.

    • http://blog.miragestudio7.com Calvin

      well, since we own our own server, is there a free open source php/java/perl FTP software for us to install onto the server?

    • http://Trick Tony

      Use opera browser it has bittorrent and ftp client inbuilt also it fast and reliable

    • Tony

      Is opera has FTP client like it has bittorrent

    • Ed

      For regular FTP, there is standard support for download/upload from Internet Explorer 7

      First you give as location ftp://ftp.yoursite.com and then click Page button on the IE7 menu, and then click Open FTP Site in Windows Explorer. you can drop files for upload.

      There should be something similar in other browsers.

    • Jonny

      I use Flash FXP Portable and it works fine without any installation

    • miguel

      in my case I use netdrive whereas your ftp can be mounted as drive easily cut paste everything

    • http://www.plrflip.com Ben

      Hi Guys,

      Can somebody point me in the direction of instructions on ftp-ing via Opera browser please? I am in a situation similar to that mentioned above i.e. at work and can’t access other ports. Opera works fine so if I can figure out how to FTP with it that’d be great!

      Thank you.

    • Anders

      Hej
      Her er en artikel til hvordan du opretter forbindelse til din ftp server, via et drev i windows. Det smarte er at du også kan se din ftp server som et drev i word osv.

      Anders

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