No FTP for me

November 17, 2005 11:04 AM

I have FTP blocked at work. Is there an alternate way I can post web works in progress so I can ask questions on MeFi?

I have FTP blocked at work. It really sucks being that I am a web designer. I have a CSS question I would like to post here but I am unable to put it somewhere where everyone can see it. Any ideas? Possibly a way to email an attachment straight to FTP?

posted by bradn to Computers & Internet (7 answers total)

SFTP? But your server would need to support it.

I run httptunnel on a Linux server at home for use when I'm mobile and stuck behind a restrictive firewall. You can tunnel anything you like in that little HTTP connection.
posted by chrismear at 11:15 AM on November 17, 2005

Best answer: Use net2ftp, a web-based FTP client.
posted by mathowie at 11:15 AM on November 17, 2005

Response by poster: Thank you mathowie, that is absolutely perfect.

My CSS question is coming up on top...
posted by bradn at 12:04 PM on November 17, 2005

Response by poster: oops, one question a week, damn.
posted by bradn at 12:06 PM on November 17, 2005

If you don't want to wait, other places to ask might be MetaChat or MonkeyFilter or the Wikipedia Reference Desk, not to mention any CSS-specific discussion/help sites you can find.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 12:28 PM on November 17, 2005

WebDav?
posted by Good Brain at 5:24 PM on November 17, 2005

You should really be using SFTP anyway. Regular ftp is insecure - your username and password are in cleartext for anyone to see. SFTP works anywhere that you can ssh, and combined with public-key authentication it works great: no more typing passwords. If you must use ftp at least use SSL.
posted by Rhomboid at 10:09 PM on November 17, 2005