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Hi,

There are many ftp site you can access with your browser and no need for a login nor password.
But if I try such sites to access them via FilaZilla sudden it requires a login and password as anonymous does not work

Is it possible for FileZilla to access such websites?

Thanks

Yes, of course.

Just note that some sites want to see a password that looks like an Email address. The original specs said you use "Anonymous" or "ftp" as username and your Email address as password. Some servers still do these simple checks.

Browsers send password strings like "IEUser@" or "example@mozilla.org" which pass those tests. Try to send the same strings with FileZilla.

Hi,

Okay still I struggle to connect the ftp site with FileZilla.

Can you give me an example how to do this?

Here is the site: http://ftp.example.com/

Please let me know how to do this.

Different protocol. You are not using FTP with your browser. Note the http:// which means that you are viewing normal webpages.

I thought the ftp > http://ftp.example.com/ was the protocol.
So it is not possible ?

No.

http:// is the protocol identifier. It is at the very start of the URL string and there can be only one.

The ftp. beyond it is a so called subdomain. Although it is named ftp, it isn't using FTP, but normal HTTP.


The confusing URL is probably the result of converting a former real FTP server into a HTTP-wrapped file server, keeping the domain structure for compatibility reasons (and maybe due to expensive certificates). This is done a lot on the web, as FTP is considered obsolete. One example: Mozilla.
You could still try example.com or ftp.example.com as Hostname (substitute with your server name, of course), as sometimes the real FTP variant of the server continues to be available. That's a choice of the server operator, however.