Most folks seem to have gravitated toward using services like DropBox in situations where FTP was once used.

>It seems to me that a lot of use cases formerly handled with FTP are these days better handled other ways.
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>I don't have much tolerance for arcana these days. I usually find it quicker to download and run some utility with an adequate UI than to learn command line switches and syntax I'll only need once.
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>>I do remember back when Windows XP was still around, and IE was still commonly used as the web browser, that there was a menu item in IE that allowed you to re-open the URL to an FTP site in Windows Explorer -- from there it would be possible to perform FTP transfer. Unfortunately it didn't take long before that that route would stop working as at some point ability to access FTP from Windows Explorer was also disabled.
>>If I'm not mistaken, there still is a command-line FTP client in Windows -- though being command-line it's not something most users would be willing to use (I still remember having to [try to] walk a [self-proclaimed] IT expert over the phone with the process -- it was like pulling teeth, and ultimately unsuccessful as despite my attempt to clearly give instructions, he would always deviate from the instructions [since he was *obviously* more experienced than I was] ).
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>>>It looks like 2 separate things:
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>>>Access permissions: that likely depends on the granularity of the controls DiscountASP provides to you. If it seems different from before, maybe they've changed things, or their tech didn't understand what you need to do.
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>>>FTP client: technically, the tech is correct, you need an FTP client to connect to an FTP site. However, for many years some web browsers included varying levels of FTP support but that seems to be increasingly deprecated - I believe Google Chrome for one just dropped FTP support after threatening to do so for some time. That said, I understand you can get extensions or plugins for major browsers for FTP support. Still, it would be a pain if your customer had to install something like that just to upload a file.
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>>>Your site may have another option named something like "HTTP/HTTPS transfer/upload" etc. If it does maybe you need to enable and configure that, it might give you what you're looking for.
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>>>>I have an account on DiscountASP. I wanted to give one folder on this site (via my admin FTP connection) to a user so that this user can upload a file to it. But the DiscountASP support person says I have to give this user access to the entire site (all FTP folders) and just read/write to one folder. And he says (in email) that the access to FTP cannot be done via a browser, only with an FTP client. This is different than I had years ago. I was able, back then, give a customer a URL and he was able to upload a file directly into "his" folder.
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>>>>What am I missing?
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>>>>TIA