The dialog Open using
FTP/SFTP/WebDAV
is
displayed from the menu or from the toolbar button Open URL ....
The displayed dialog is composed of several parts:
You can type in here an URL like http://some.site/test.xml, in case the file is accessible through normal HTTP protocol, or ftp://anonymous@some.site/home/test.xml if the file is accessible through anonymous FTP.
Your password is well protected. In the case the options file is used on other machine by a user with a different username the password will become unreadable, since the encryption is username dependent. This is also true if you add URLs having user and password to your project.
Server URLs
When accessing a FTP server, you need to specify only the protocol and the host, like: ftp://server.com, or if using a nonstandard port: ftp://server.com:7800/.
Make sure that the repository directory ends in a slash "/".
By pressing the Browse button the directory listing will be shown in the component below. When Autoconnect is selected then at every time the dialog is shown, the browse action will be performed.
The tree view of the documents stored on the server. You can browse the directories, and make multiple selections. Additionally, you may use the Rename, Delete, and New Folder to manage the file repository.
The file names are sorted in a case-insensitive way.