Ion 3.0 and above.
Ion 3.0 deprecated the Profile property “Use Legacy FTP” setting, which emulated IE 6’s behavior of opening FTP URLs in Windows Explorer. The guidance below is designed to help customers that still require the Legacy FTP functionality on managed applications in Ion 3.0 (and above).
As a security measure for releases after IE6, FTP URLs were no longer opened in Windows Explorer by default. Certain web applications developed prior to this security change were dependent on opening FTP URLs in Windows Explorer and broke as a result of the change. However, using Ion 3.0, Project administrators can set custom registry values in the desired Profile to replicate Ion 2.0’s Use Legacy FTP and IE 6 ftp behavior.
Add following registry values in Custom registry manager for the profile, to enable legacy ftp.
Hive – Local Machine
Key – Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_INTERNET_SHELL_FOLDERS
Value – iexplore.exe
Type – DWORD
Value – 0x1
To ensure an Internet Explorer Security dialog doesn’t show up on Windows Vista and above, you may need to add the ftp domain to “Trusted Sites” zone or “Local Intranet” zone.
1) Load attached sample project file LegacyFTPExample.project.bcx
2) Open Internet Explorer on the test machine that is running Ion with LegacyFTP project.
3) Visit HP’s ftp driver’s website. ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub
4) You will notice that HP’s ftp site opens in Internet Explorer itself.
5) Now browse to http://www.mozilla.org to open Managed instance of Internet Explorer.
6) After Firefox website loads, try opening Firefox’s builds URL hosted on an ftp server… ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub
7) Unless Protected Mode is disabled or you have previously disabled certain security warnings, you should see this notification to indicate the site is being opened outside of Internet Explorer (as expected):
8) For deployment purposes Browsium does not recommend disabling this warning for all users as it could leave systems in an insecure state. Users should be advised to click ‘Allow’ ton continue.
FTP and Internet Explorer… What to do, what to do
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