Alternatives to CurlFtpFs?

Question

CurlFtpFs is old and unsupported. It can't even copy files with a "#" in the filename.

https://alternativeto.net/software/curlftpfs/about/ says it has been obsoleted by LUFS, but LUFS seems to be even older (2003)!

Is there anything better?

I found AVFS, but I am not sure it is usable with Vifm. There are some old instructions for rox though.

Answer 1

See this question for example of using AVFS for viewing archives, not sure how well it applies for remote mounts though.

Comments

I ended up writing a script like this that logs into ftpserver.com (fictional) with login / secretpassword and makes its contents available as ftpdir/. To log out, I unmount ~/.avfs.

#!/bin/sh
avfsd ~/.avfs
rm ftpdir
mount-avfs ftpdir /#ftp:login@ftpserver.com
rm ftpdir
echo secretpassword >~/.avfs/#ftp_ctl:login@ftpserver.com/password
ln -s ~/.avfs/#ftp:login@ftpserver.com ftpdir

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There is also rclone which can be used in place of CurlFtpFs.