How do I get the file/folder url?

Hi, Jonathan,

Because S3 is web-based to begin with, copying a URL for an S3 object is a simple and sensible operation. But when you are talking to an FTP or SFTP server, there is no simple correlation between the file's path and its location according to a web server -- even if we assume a web server is running on that host.

The "path" component of a web URL is assumes that you're referring to an object that resides inside the web server's document root -- but there is no reliable way to map between an arbitrary filesystem directory on the FTP or SFTP server, and how that directory's name is written according to the web server. With S3, we don't have to guess -- we use the same URL to access the file that you would want to copy.

We plan in the future to add a kind of URL-copy feature for FTP and SFTP drives, but it will require some input from the user in order for the URLs to make sense.