Why cant i download htm files in winscp

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Do you want WinSCP to show rendered page instead of opening its code in editor? Or open the page in a local webbrowser? I want to open a rendered page in webbrowser, and it's always a dysfunctional page no image, js functions not working. So how can I open that page that works well? Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. This makes WinSCP download the file to a temporary local folder and open the file from there. Or you actually want to open the file from the server, via HTTP. Improve this answer.

Martin Prikryl Martin Prikryl k 46 46 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. But with some providers you will have several subdirectories available, from which only one is visible on the Internet. All files you upload to this directory will be visible on the Internet. So for example if you upload your page pictures. By convention there is a single file that gets displayed if you do not specify any file in the address directly, i.

The name of the file is usually index. It is strongly recommended not to use punctuation characters, spaces and some special characters in filenames to be published on Internet. Also URL web addresses are case sensitive, which is different to how Windows treat filenames. So if you first test your pages locally on Windows and links stops working once you upload the pages, it is probably for inconsistencies in letter cases.

This is not the same on Internet. You may start uploading by dragging your files to remote panel of WinSCP.