FTP link to work in all browsers (Chrome, IE9, Firefox)

Question

Is there a winning combination that will make a FTP link work in all the browsers?

• Works in Chrome + Firefox but doesn't work in IE9: ftp://username:password@ftpserver/folder
• Works only in IE9, but not in the others: ftp://username:password@ftpserver/path/to/folder

Seems that IE9 only works if you give it an absolute path. Anybody found a better solution?

Answer 1

Try ftp://username:password@ftpserver/folder/ (add the trailing slash if it is a folder). This works in IE too.

By the way, I suppose there is no such notion as absolute path in FTP links: all FTP paths are treated as being originated from FTP root folder.