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From the command line, yes, but not the GUI. When I do command-K in the Finder and enter a sftp://whatever I get this message:

URLs should begin with afp://, at://, file://, ftp://, http://, https://, nfs://, smb://, cifs://, or vnc://

It's easy enough to get a nice SFTP client though (I prefer Transmit. It even supports Amazon S3)



Ah, yes, that's right. It's easy to forget that not everyone is a developer.

Cyberduck (http://cyberduck.ch/) is also a good sftp/s3 client for OS X.


OS X doesn't even really support FTP through the Finder... It's read only.

A good substitute is MacFUSE and the SSH file system. Your server gets mounted as a disk (read and write!) and it's secure through SSH. If you want goodies like preferences there is a product called ExpanDrive that makes it pretty seamless.




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