Integrating WS_FTP with a browser or e-Mail (WS_FTP Professional)

FTP sites have an Internet address, similar to a web address, that looks like:

ftp://ftp.progress.com, sftp://ftp.progress.com, or ftps://ftp.progress.com

You can set an option in Progress WS_FTP Professional so that when you click on an FTP, FTPS, or SFTP address in your browser or e-mail client, so that Progress WS_FTP Professional will open and connect to the FTP server.

The type of FTP address affects how this works:

If the address includes:

Progress WS_FTP Professional does:

the name of an FTP server. For example, ftp.progress.com

Opens and connects to the server

the path and name of a file. For example, ftp.progress.com/French/ftp803.txt

Downloads the file to your PC and prompts whether to save or open the file.

the path and name of a folder. For example, ftp.progress.com/French

Opens, connects to the server, and navigates to the folder.

To turn on Browser Integration:

  1. On the toolbar, click Options.
  2. From the Program Options dialog, select Browser Integration.
  3. Select the option Enable integration for FTP URLs in Internet Explorer.
  4. If you want to be prompted each time you click an FTP URL so you can choose whether or not to use Progress WS_FTP Professional, select Prompt before using WS_FTP to process FTP URLs.