Can’t connect to FTP with Catalina Beta

On a Mac I've actually had some trouble with FileZilla as Chris mentioned.

I personally prefer Cyberduck (http://cyberduck.ch/) which has worked very well for me. Especially in cases where Finder could not handle things like:

ftp://siteaddress|user@logindomain

I personally am not surprised this is broken, but then again, I have larger faults with Finder's ftp implementation than this problem. From someone that's used to ftp on the command line, it's second nature to think of the @ as reserved to delineate the user part of the string with the host name part of the string, so perhaps that's a bug that the author of the code introduced.

Just as you're finding it hard to believe this is broken, I find it hard to believe Apple hasn't removed ftp from finder entirely and just pointed people to the Mac App store for a ftp client of their choosing at this point. Here's to hoping they do that for 10.9.

Assuming you are in need of a solution today, here are suggestions to work around it:

• Try using ftp from the command line
• Try to escape the @ with \ or otherwise trick the finder into getting past it as a delimiter
• Use another program like Transmit that has more robust handling of any valid strings.
• Searching the Mac App store in April 2013 yields no less than 56 choices for FTP.