Options for Browser-interfaced ftp on the mac??

Hello,

I'm pretty sure there's not an answer to this that I'll like to hear,
but just in case somebody has some suggestion..

I am building an extranet site to allow clients to upload & download
files directly from their browsers, using a frameset with a
ftp://user:pass@ipaddress src works perfectly in netscape on the mac,
just draggin and dropping to/from the desktop/browser. 

But it seems Ie on the mac, and both browsers on the pc, will only let
you download files 

So I have set up different options, browser-based ftp, http
file-uploads, and "just use the same ftp client you always used
before.."/get your password

Which may be a little unintuitive... or at least not as simple/sparse as
the rest of the site/brand/image.. (many users will be clients & we are
selling them branding/sites/images)

This ftp server is a mac (8.3?9.1? Definitely NOT OSX so no PHP), the
web server on the machine is WebStar and has applescript cgi support
which will be used to create/edit/delete rumpus users via some intranet
page (no macPerl.. Yet)

Finally, the question.. 

If I do decide to use some method of creating an ftp client interface,
ala http2ftp, does something already exist for the macintosh?

If so, have you used it? Any thoughts?

If not, have you used macPerl? Vs. applescript?

What about macASP or anything else I haven't heard of yet? 


I'm rarely convinced of a good reason to use a mac for a web server, but
this particular one is networked to a second mac running adobe
distiller, which is set up to watch certain folders on a third mac file
server & churn pdf files out into certain users' rumpus drop directories


I have pretty extensive perl/php/asp experience on other platforms, so
reviews comparing these hybrids to win/lin versions might be useful, and
stability is a much bigger issue than ease-of-learning



Any help is appreciate,

Ken 

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