How do I get Safari on OS X to stop ignoring the protocol part of a URL when the hostname starts with "ftp"? I'm using Safari 8.0.5 on OS X 10.10.3. We have a server that's accessible over both FTP and HTTP. This server's name begins with "ftp." Whenever I try to connect to this server over HTTP, Safari dumps the connection attempt off to an FTP client, even if I use "http://ftp.example.com" (for the sake of an example) in the URL. This is super annoying. The only way I can get the correct behavior is to use a different web browser, such as Chrome or Firefox. 

Can anyone suggest a way around this?

Thanks,
Sigsegv
Unfortunately, you can't without editing some plist files. Please refer to this older question (not marked as dupe since the overall issue/question was different) for a few answers on this issue.