Skip to Content
Windows Vista® Inside Out Deluxe Edition
book

Windows Vista® Inside Out Deluxe Edition

by Ed Bott, Carl Siechert, Craig Stinson
May 2008
Intermediate to advanced
1408 pages
44h 25m
English
Microsoft Press
Content preview from Windows Vista® Inside Out Deluxe Edition

Using Internet Explorer as an FTP Client

You can use Internet Explorer to access repositories of files using File Transfer Protocol (FTP) sites as well as using HTTP to visit websites. To specify an FTP address, use the ftp:// prefix instead of http://. By default, Internet Explorer displays directory listings from FTP sites in a plain text view, using system fonts, as in the example in Figure 8-23. You can click the link to open any file saved in a browser-friendly format (text or HTML, for example) directly in the browser window. To save a file, right-click its hyperlink and choose Save Target As.

FTP listings in an Internet Explorer window use this bare-bones text format.

Figure 8-23. FTP listings in an Internet Explorer ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Windows® 7 Inside Out, Deluxe Edition

Windows® 7 Inside Out, Deluxe Edition

Carl Siechert Ed Bott and Craig Stinson
Windows Vista™ Inside Out

Windows Vista™ Inside Out

Ed Bott, Carl Siechert, Craig Stinson
Windows 7 Inside Out

Windows 7 Inside Out

Carl Siechert Ed Bott and Craig Stinson

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780735625242Catalog PageErrata