[Project_owners] how can work with FTP

[Neil]

eric.jung at yahoo.com wrote:

> If you *must* use FTP, I believe the only way is to do like the 
> FireFTP extension does--implement the FTP protocol yourself over the 
> XPCOM socket interfaces. Needless to say, that's a large task. Is 
> there any way you can host the file(s) on a web server? If so, you can 
> retrieve them really easily with XmlHttpRequest() (even if the file 
> isn't xml) or inputstreams.

I'm sure input streams work on FTP channels too. In fact, Gecko also 
includes FTP upload, but not (yet!) the other things FireFTP does such 
as rename or delete.