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Windows' File Explorer briefly flirted with WebDAV (and still sort of supports it for backward compatibility reasons, but using it is harder than ever for new t
by WorldMaker 5y ago
Windows' File Explorer briefly flirted with WebDAV (and still sort of supports it for backward compatibility reasons, but using it is harder than ever for new things and the buggy WebDAV implementation is mostly frozen with its early oughts idea of WebDAV quirks). It never supported FTP, because it skipped FTP for WebDAV.
Now that File Explorer has a 9p file server (from Plan 9) built in for WSL1/2 support, I wonder if you could hack together good Plan 9 style FTP support for File Explorer. I don't think the 9p server is that easy to talk to directly, though. (You could of course just do a Linux mount to FTP in WSL and maybe accomplish that through two step indirection, but I'd imagine doing something more directly in 9p would be preferable.)
- Avery3R 5y agoI haven't tested up to more modern versions but explorer at least up to Vista had an ftp client built in, albeit not a very good one. Edit: Just tested on Win 10 1809, ftp support is still built-in to file explorer.
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