23 Dec, 2011, JohnnyStarr wrote in the 1st comment:
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So, I tried out shiftedit.net It's not a bad client for being free and having remote capabilities. The thing I don't understand is the FTP / SFTP connectivity. Apparently you use your site's ftp credentials to login.
I tried this out with my website and it connected to my FTP server pretty easily.
The URL never changed between uploads / updates. I'm assuming they use some form of AJAX trickery to do this.
Does anyone know how this works exactly? I'm curious about using FTP through the browser without an plugins or anything else. This could be a very useful feature to learn.
My webhost (fatcow.com) allows me to use the web based file manager to access my files. Is this the same protocol? Is it using HTTP?
Either its webserver proxies the request to the FTP server, or it uses a non-visible Flash object to manufacture true sockets. For security's sake, I hope it's the latter, since otherwise they could have a bad open proxy issue.
25 Dec, 2011, David Haley wrote in the 5th comment:
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They could mitigate it (somewhat) by giving the javascript some kind of secret key to identify to the proxy, but indeed, all you'd need to (mis)use the proxy would be to grab that key from the source. ("key" here could be a literal password or any kind of scheme; the point is that you have it in the source)
having remote capabilities. The thing I don't understand is the FTP / SFTP
connectivity. Apparently you use your site's ftp credentials to login.
I tried this out with my website and it connected to my FTP server pretty easily.
The URL never changed between uploads / updates. I'm assuming they use some form
of AJAX trickery to do this.
Does anyone know how this works exactly? I'm curious about using FTP through the
browser without an plugins or anything else. This could be a very useful feature
to learn.
My webhost (fatcow.com) allows me to use the web based file manager to access my
files. Is this the same protocol? Is it using HTTP?