WebDrive - Make FTP connections appear as virtual drives.
If you do anything on the web, particularly things like web
development or other types of website maintenance, you're probably
aware of "FTP" or File Transfer Protocol. The FTP protocol, and its
sibling SFTP (Secure FTP), are two of the quiet workhorses of pushing
bits around the internet.
The current traditional approach to dealing with file transfers via
FTP is to use a graphical utility such as FileZilla, CuteFTP, WinSCP or
others, and then drag-and-drop files to and from the remote site. The
previous approach was to use the "ftp" program to perform the same
operations at the command line.
I've become addicted to WebDrive which allows you to do both and much, much
more, by simply making a FTP connection appear as a virtual disk drive
on your machine.
That's an incredibly simple approach that enables a world of
flexibility.
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