Comparison of FTP client software
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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of FTP clients and related clients that use other file transfer protocols. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up to date. Unless otherwise specified in footnotes, comparisons are based on the stable versions without any add-ons, extensions or external programs.
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Basic general information about the clients: creator/company, license/price etc.
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(CL) Command-Line interface only – no GUI
s the clients support. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the clients or extensions that provide such functionality.
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Basic general information about the clients: creator/company, license/price etc.
Free
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| cURL CURL cURL is a computer software project providing a library and command-line tool for transferring data using various protocols. The cURL project produces two products, libcurl and cURL... |
Daniel Stenberg | 1998 | 7.21.3 | MIT MIT License The MIT License is a free software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . It is a permissive license, meaning that it permits reuse within proprietary software provided all copies of the licensed software include a copy of the MIT License terms... |
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| CurlFtpFS CurlFtpFS CurlFtpFS is a filesystem for accessing FTP hosts based on FUSE and libcurl, which offers the following features amongst others:* SSLv3 and TLSv1 support;* the ability to connect through tunneling HTTP proxies;... |
Robson Braga Araujo | 2006 | 0.9.2 | GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
Virtual file system Virtual file system A virtual file system or virtual filesystem switch is an abstraction layer on top of a more concrete file system. The purpose of a VFS is to allow client applications to access different types of concrete file systems in a uniform way... |
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| Cyberduck Cyberduck Cyberduck is an open source FTP and SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files, Google Docs, and Amazon S3 client for Mac OS X and Windows licensed under the GPL. Cyberduck is written in the Java language and using the Cocoa user interface framework. It supports FTP/TLS , using AUTH TLS as well as directory... |
David V. Kocher | 2001 | 3.7 | GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
GUI Graphical user interface In computing, a graphical user interface is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices with images rather than text commands. GUIs can be used in computers, hand-held devices such as MP3 players, portable media players or gaming devices, household appliances and... |
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| edtFTPj EdtFTPj edtFTPj is an open source FTP client library for use in Java applications licensed under the LGPL. It was first released in 2000, and was originally known as the Java FTP Client Library... |
Bruce P. Blackshaw | 2000 | 2.2.0 | LGPL GNU Lesser General Public License The GNU Lesser General Public License or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation . It was designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General Public License or GPL and permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses and the MIT License... |
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| edtFTPnet EdtFTPnet edtFTPnet is an open source FTP client library for Windows licensed under the LGPL. It was first released in 2003, and was ported from edtFTPj. It is supplied as a DLL and can be incorporated into Windows applications that require FTP functionality.... |
Bruce P. Blackshaw | 2003 | 2.2.1 | LGPL GNU Lesser General Public License The GNU Lesser General Public License or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation . It was designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General Public License or GPL and permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses and the MIT License... |
Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... DLL |
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| FileZilla FileZilla FileZilla is free, open source, cross-platform FTP software, consisting of FileZilla Client and FileZilla Server. Binaries are available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. It supports FTP, SFTP, and FTPS . As of 18 April 2011, FileZilla Client was the 7th most popular download of all time from... |
Community | 2001 (January) | 3.5.1 | GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
GUI Graphical user interface In computing, a graphical user interface is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices with images rather than text commands. GUIs can be used in computers, hand-held devices such as MP3 players, portable media players or gaming devices, household appliances and... |
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| FireFTP FireFTP FireFTP is a free, open source, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox in the form of an add-on. It supports FTP, FTPS, and SFTP. FireFTP is charityware and runs on platforms that Firefox supports.- Features :... |
Mime Čuvalo | 2004 (September) | 1.0.10 | MPL Mozilla Public License The Mozilla Public License is a free and open source software license. Version 1.0 was developed by Mitchell Baker when she worked as a lawyer at Netscape Communications Corporation and version 1.1 at the Mozilla Foundation... , Charityware |
Firefox Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. , Firefox is the second most widely used browser, with approximately 25% of worldwide usage share of web browsers... addon |
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| Fugu Fugu (software) -External links:* *... |
University of Michigan Research Systems Unix Group | 2003 | 1.2.0 | BSD BSD licenses BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses. The original license was used for the Berkeley Software Distribution , a Unix-like operating system after which it is named.... |
GUI Graphical user interface In computing, a graphical user interface is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices with images rather than text commands. GUIs can be used in computers, hand-held devices such as MP3 players, portable media players or gaming devices, household appliances and... |
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| gFTP GFTP gFTP is a free/open source multithreaded FTP client. It is most used on Unix-like systems, such as Linux, Mac OS X and Sony PlayStation. It includes both a GUI and a command-line interface... |
Brian Masney | 1998 | 2.0.19 | GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
GTK+ GTK+ GTK+ is a cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, allowing both free and proprietary software to use it. It is one of the most popular toolkits for the X Window System, along with Qt.The name GTK+ originates from GTK;... |
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| lftp Lftp lftp is a command-line file transfer program for UNIX and Unix-like systems. It was written by Alexander Lukyanov, and is made available under the GNU General Public License.... |
Alexander V. Lukyanov | 1996 (August) | 4.1.1 | GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
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| Macfusion Macfusion Macfusion is an open-source network file-system client, based on FUSE, CurlFtpFS and SSHFS.-External links:**... |
Michael Gorbach | ? | 2.0.4 | BSD BSD licenses BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses. The original license was used for the Berkeley Software Distribution , a Unix-like operating system after which it is named.... |
GUI Graphical user interface In computing, a graphical user interface is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices with images rather than text commands. GUIs can be used in computers, hand-held devices such as MP3 players, portable media players or gaming devices, household appliances and... |
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| NcFTP NcFTP NcFTP is an FTP client program which debuted in 1990 as the first alternative FTP client. It was created as an alternative to the standard UNIX ftp program, and offers a number of additional features and greater ease of use.... |
NcFTP Software Inc. | 1991 | 3.2.4 | Clarified Artistic License Artistic License The Artistic License refers most commonly to the original Artistic License , a software license used for certain free and open source software packages, most notably the standard Perl implementation and most CPAN modules, which are dual-licensed under the Artistic License and the GNU General Public... |
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| net2ftp Net2ftp net2ftp is a web based FTP client, written in PHP.-Features:As well as offering standard FTP functions, net2ftp also offers a variety of features including archiving and extracting files and directories, downloading a selected group of files and/or directories as an archive.net2ftp can be set to... |
David C. Gartner | 2003 (January) | 0.98 | GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
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| PSFTP (PuTTY PuTTY PuTTY is a free and open source terminal emulator application which can act as a client for the SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP computing protocols and as a serial console client... ) |
Simon Tatham Simon Tatham Simon Tatham is an English programmer known primarily for creating and maintaining PuTTY, a free software implementation of Telnet and SSH clients for Unix and Windows API platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator... |
1999 (January) | 0.6 | MIT | CLI | |
| Swish Swish (SFTP client) Swish is a shell extension that allows Windows Explorer to manage files using SFTP.It can be used to transfer files to and from a remote server but can't open them directly.-External links:... |
Alexander Lamaison | 2007 | 0.4.4 | GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
Windows Explorer Windows Explorer This article is about the Windows file system browser. For the similarly named web browser, see Internet ExplorerWindows Explorer is a file manager application that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 95 onwards. It provides a graphical user interface... shell extension |
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| WinSCP WinSCP WinSCP is a free and open source SFTP, SCP, and FTP client for Microsoft Windows. Its main function is secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers basic file manager and file synchronization functionality... |
Martin Prikryl | 2000 | 4.3.4 | GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
GUI Graphical user interface In computing, a graphical user interface is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices with images rather than text commands. GUIs can be used in computers, hand-held devices such as MP3 players, portable media players or gaming devices, household appliances and... |
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| Yafc Yafc Yafc is a command-line FTP program, its name an acronym for 'Yet Another FTP Client'. It is developed in and available for Linux under the GPL license, but there should be little or no problem compiling it on any nearly POSIX-compliant Unix with an ANSI C compiler.It has the following features:*... |
John Buswell | ? | 1.1.1 | GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
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Freeware
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| BitKinex BitKinex -Overview:BitKinex is a multiprotocol FTP client, supporting FTP, SFTP, HTTP .The FTP features on one-click commands list, multipart download and multi thread browse.... |
Barad-Dur, LLC. | 2003 | 3.2.2 | Proprietary Freeware Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee, but usually with one or more restricted usage rights. Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the... |
GUI Graphical user interface In computing, a graphical user interface is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices with images rather than text commands. GUIs can be used in computers, hand-held devices such as MP3 players, portable media players or gaming devices, household appliances and... + command line Command-line interface A command-line interface is a mechanism for interacting with a computer operating system or software by typing commands to perform specific tasks... |
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| Classic FTP | NCH Software NCH Software NCH Software is a software development company founded in 1993 in Canberra, Australia. The Denver office was started in April 2008 due to the large U.S. customer base... |
2007 | 1.13 | Proprietary Freeware Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee, but usually with one or more restricted usage rights. Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the... |
GUI Graphical user interface In computing, a graphical user interface is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices with images rather than text commands. GUIs can be used in computers, hand-held devices such as MP3 players, portable media players or gaming devices, household appliances and... |
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| Fling FTP (free version contains adware) | NCH Software NCH Software NCH Software is a software development company founded in 1993 in Canberra, Australia. The Denver office was started in April 2008 due to the large U.S. customer base... |
2007 | 1.0.7 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
Windows Explorer Windows Explorer This article is about the Windows file system browser. For the similarly named web browser, see Internet ExplorerWindows Explorer is a file manager application that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 95 onwards. It provides a graphical user interface... shell extension |
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| FTP Rush | Wing FTP Software | 2011 | 2.1.5 | Freeware Freeware Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee, but usually with one or more restricted usage rights. Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the... |
GUI Graphical user interface In computing, a graphical user interface is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices with images rather than text commands. GUIs can be used in computers, hand-held devices such as MP3 players, portable media players or gaming devices, household appliances and... |
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| LeechFTP LeechFTP LeechFTP is a multi-threaded freeware FTP client by Jan Debis.-History:The product was originally written in Delphi 3. The last release, version 1.3 build 207, was made public in April 1999... |
Jan Debis | 1998 | 1.3 (Discontinued) | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| Mosaic Mosaic (web browser) Mosaic is the web browser credited with popularizing the World Wide Web. It was also a client for earlier protocols such as FTP, NNTP, and gopher. Its clean, easily understood user interface, reliability, Windows port and simple installation all contributed to making it the application that opened... |
NCSA NCSA NCSA may refer to:*National Center for Supercomputing Applications**NCSA HTTPd, an early webserver developed at this center*University of North Carolina School of the Arts*National Cyber Security Alliance... |
1993 | 3.0 (Discontinued) | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| pbFtpClient | Level5Software | 2007 | 6.1 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... GUI Graphical user interface In computing, a graphical user interface is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices with images rather than text commands. GUIs can be used in computers, hand-held devices such as MP3 players, portable media players or gaming devices, household appliances and... |
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| UploadFTP Free | Brightek Software | 2011 | 2.0 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
GUI Graphical user interface In computing, a graphical user interface is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices with images rather than text commands. GUIs can be used in computers, hand-held devices such as MP3 players, portable media players or gaming devices, household appliances and... |
Freeware and Payware Editions
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| CoreFTP | CoreFTP.com | 2003 | 2.1 | Proprietary Freeware Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee, but usually with one or more restricted usage rights. Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the... |
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| CrossFTP | CrossFTP.com | 2006 | 1.51 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| FAR Manager FAR Manager FAR Manager is an orthodox file manager for Microsoft Windows and a clone of Norton Commander... |
Eugene Roshal Eugene Roshal Eugene Roshal is a Russian software engineer best known as developer of:* FAR file manager * RAR file format * WinRAR file archiver... / FAR Group |
1996 | 2.0.1807 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| Fetch Fetch (FTP client) Fetch is a full-featured GUI-based Mac OS-only FTP client made by Fetch Softworks. The latest version of Fetch is 5.6; the long-awaited version 5 was released on May 24, 2005. In addition to basic FTP functionality, Fetch includes such features as editing files without having to download them and... |
Fetch Softworks | 1989 | 5.5.1 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| Secure FTP Secure FTP (software) Secure FTP is a Java-based FTP client developed by Glub Tech. Some of its features include: FTPS , bookmarks, compression, proxy and firewall support, multiple connections, chmod, drag-and-drop, command-line scripting, and localization for 8 languages, including English, French, German, Spanish,... |
Glub Tech | 1999 | 2.6.0 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| Sysax FTP Automation Sysax FTP Automation Sysax FTP Automation is a Secure file transfer automation program for the Windows operating system. It consists of a script generation wizard, script editor and debugger, and a task scheduler. It also contains a secure command line FTP Client program called sysaxftp.exe that is a secure drop-in... |
Codeorigin, LLC | 2005 | 4.1 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
Trials of Payware
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| BatchFTP | ENSware LLC. | 2000 | 9.0.0.1 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| 3D-FTP 3D-FTP 3D-FTP is an FTP/FTPS/SFTP client for Windows, developed by SiteDesigner Technologies, Inc. The first version was released 1999.3D-FTP is used to transfer files between your computer and FTP servers... |
SiteDesigner Technologies, Inc. | 1999 | 9.01 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| AbsoluteTelnet AbsoluteTelnet AbsoluteTelnet is a software terminal client for Windows that implements Telnet, SSH 1 and 2, SFTP, TAPI Dialup and direct COM port connections. It is commercial software, originally released in 1999 and is still in regular development by Brian Pence of Celestial Software.- Features :Some features... |
Celestial Software | 1996 | 7.21 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| AutoFTP | PrimaSoft PC | 1998 | 4.9 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| BulletProof FTP aka BPFTP | BulletProof Software LLC | 1997 | 2.63 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| CuteFTP CuteFTP CuteFTP is a series of FTP client applications developed by GlobalSCAPE since 1996, with both a Windows-based or Mac-based interface and made for both home and professional use.... |
Alex Kunadze | 1994 | 8.3.4 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| FlashFXP FlashFXP FlashFXP is a proprietary, well-established, and mature FTP client under active development sporting a simple Windows-based GUI. FlashFXP supports both client-to-server and server-to-server transfers... |
OpenSight Software, LLC | 1999 | 4.0 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| FTP Client | Vicomsoft | 1997 | 4.6.3 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| FTP Voyager FTP Voyager -FTP Voyager:FTP Voyager is an FTP/FTPS/SFTP client for Microsoft Windows with support for the following features:*FTP/FTPS/SFTP protocols*Directory synchronization*Use of multiple file transfer threads*File searching*Custom FTP commands... |
Rhino Software, Inc | January, 1997 | 15.1.0.4 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| Global Downloader | Actysoft Inc | 2005 | 1.6.2.1 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| LeapFTP | LeapWare | 1996 | 3.0.1 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| GoAnywhere Director Linoma Software Linoma Software is the developer of managed file transfer and encryption solutions. Linoma Software’s customers are primarily made up of mid-sized companies, large enterprises and government entities including city, county and state government... |
Linoma Software Linoma Software Linoma Software is the developer of managed file transfer and encryption solutions. Linoma Software’s customers are primarily made up of mid-sized companies, large enterprises and government entities including city, county and state government... |
2002 | 3.5.1 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| Robo-FTP Robo-FTP Robo-FTP is a secure, script-driven Microsoft Windows FTP and HTTP client designed to conduct unattended file transfers with normal FTP and 128-bit SSH and SSL secure servers. New features include an integrated script editor and scheduling utility. Robo-FTP also features integrated PGP... |
Serengeti Systems Incorporated | 2001 | 3.7.8 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| SmartFTP SmartFTP SmartFTP is an FTP/FTPS/SFTP client for Windows, developed by SmartSoft Ltd. Features include SSL/TLS, IPv6 and FXP support, a backup tool, a transfer queue, proxy and firewall support, multiple connections, chmod features, Drag-and-drop and localization for over 20 languages, including English,... |
SmartSoft Ltd | 1998 | 3.0.1217.0 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| Total Commander Total Commander Total Commander is an Orthodox File Manager software for Windows, Windows CE, and Windows Mobile. Some features include a built-in FTP client, file compare, archive file navigation, and a versatile multi-rename tool with regular expression support.... |
Christian Ghisler | 1993 | 7.55a | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| UploadFTP UploadFTP UploadFTP is an FTP/SFTP/FTPS/FTPES/FXP client for Windows, developed by Brightek Software. UploadFTP is shareware – after a fourteen-day trial period, the product should be purchased... |
Brightek Software | 2011 | 2.0 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| WebDrive WebDrive WebDrive is an FTP client developed by South River Technologies. The latest version of the software is 10.00. Webdrive integrates WebDAV, FTP, Amazon S3 or SFTP so that linked server resources function as a mapped network drive.... |
South River Technologies, Inc. | 1998 | 9.0.2199 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| WS FTP WS FTP WS_FTP is an FTP client produced by the American company Ipswitch, Inc. for the Windows operating systems.WS_FTP is one of the oldest Shareware FTP clients still around today dating back to the early 90's. It was originally developed in 1993 by John A. Junod, who sold the marketing rights to... |
Ipswitch, Inc. | 1996 | 12.3 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| Yummy FTP Yummy FTP Yummy FTP is an FTP client for Mac OS X made by Yummy Software. It supports FTP, FTPS, and SFTP. It is noted for its customizable interface and automation capability using AppleScript.-Further reading:******... |
Yummy Software | 2004 | 1.8.2 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
Payware
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| ALFTP ALFTP ALFTP is an FTP client and personal FTP server utility from ESTsoft for Microsoft Windows. It is part of ESTsoft's ALTools product family.While it has been available in Korean since 2000 as freeware , it was first made available in English in 2004, and has since been made available in over ten... |
ESTsoft ESTsoft Founded in 1992, ESTsoft is a South Korean application software development company. Its software ranges from desktop to business software for enterprises.-Products:... |
2000 | 5.1 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| BitKinex FTP BitKinex -Overview:BitKinex is a multiprotocol FTP client, supporting FTP, SFTP, HTTP .The FTP features on one-click commands list, multipart download and multi thread browse.... |
Barad-Dur, LLC. | 2003 | 3.0.3 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| Captain FTP Captain FTP Captain FTP is an FTP client for Mac OS X, developed by Xnet Communications. Version 4.5 includes automated uploading/downloading, file sharing, synchronizing and a tabbed interface. Captain FTP also provides a Dashboard widget for uploading files, the virtual folders feature can also be used to... |
Xnet | 2001 | 6.0 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| Directory Opus Directory Opus Directory Opus is a popular file manager program, originally written for the Amiga computer system in the early to mid 1990s... |
GPSoftware | 1990 | 9.5 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| ExpanDrive ExpanDrive ExpanDrive is a Network file system client for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows that facilitates mapping of local volume to any SFTP server the user can access. It also can connect to FTP servers and Amazon S3. When a server is mounted with ExpanDrive any program can read, write, and manage remote... (Mac) |
ExpanDrive, Inc | 2008 | 1.3.4 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| ExpanDrive ExpanDrive ExpanDrive is a Network file system client for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows that facilitates mapping of local volume to any SFTP server the user can access. It also can connect to FTP servers and Amazon S3. When a server is mounted with ExpanDrive any program can read, write, and manage remote... (Windows) (formerly SftpDrive) |
ExpanDrive, Inc | 2005 | 1.8.1 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| FTP Commander FTP Commander FTP Commander is an FTP client for Windows. The program is developed by InternetSoft Corporation. Features include multiple connections, SSH, SSL, scheduler and backup tool, proxy and firewall support, chmod features, and localization for over 20 languages... |
Internetsoft Corporation | 1997 | 9.20 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| FTP Explorer FTP Explorer FTP Explorer is an FTP client application for the Microsoft Windows operating system which was originally developed in 1996 by Alan Chavis, founder of FTPx Corp.... |
FTPx Corp. | October, 1996 | 1.0.1.53 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| GoAnywhere Director Linoma Software Linoma Software is the developer of managed file transfer and encryption solutions. Linoma Software’s customers are primarily made up of mid-sized companies, large enterprises and government entities including city, county and state government... |
Linoma Software Linoma Software Linoma Software is the developer of managed file transfer and encryption solutions. Linoma Software’s customers are primarily made up of mid-sized companies, large enterprises and government entities including city, county and state government... |
2002 | 3.6.2 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| Interarchy Interarchy Interarchy is a file transfer application for Mac OS X. It is engineered by Nolobe Pty Ltd.-Features:Interarchy is an RFC standards compliant TCP/IP file transfer client... |
nolobe pty ltd. | 1993 (as Anarchie) | 10.0.2 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| SecureFX | VanDyke Software SecureCRT SecureCRT is a commercial SSH and Telnet client and terminal emulator by VanDyke Software. Originally a Windows product, VanDyke has recently added a Mac OS X version and Linux version .-History:... |
1998 | 6.7 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| Transmit Transmit (FTP client) Transmit is an FTP client for Mac OS X and Mac OS Classic . Developed by Panic, Transmit is shareware – after a seven-day trial period, the product can only be used for seven-minute sessions until it has been purchased.... |
Panic, Inc. Panic (company) Panic is an Oregon-based American software company that specializes in shareware applications for Mac OS X. It was founded by Steven Frank and Cabel Sasser.... |
1998 | 4.1.6 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| WISE-FTP WISE-FTP WISE-FTP is a FTP client for Microsoft Windows which is developed and distributed by the German company AceBIT, located in Darmstadt. Apart from using the normal FTP protocol, Wise-FTP supports SSH and FTPS protocols and the cryptographic protocols SSL and TLS... |
AceBIT | 1998 | 6.1.0 | Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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Operating system support
The operating systemOperating system
An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...
s the clients can run on.
| Client | Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... |
Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... |
BSD | Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna... |
AmigaOS AmigaOS AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga personal computer. It was developed first by Commodore International, and initially introduced in 1985 with the Amiga 1000... |
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| 3D-FTP 3D-FTP 3D-FTP is an FTP/FTPS/SFTP client for Windows, developed by SiteDesigner Technologies, Inc. The first version was released 1999.3D-FTP is used to transfer files between your computer and FTP servers... |
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| AbsoluteTelnet AbsoluteTelnet AbsoluteTelnet is a software terminal client for Windows that implements Telnet, SSH 1 and 2, SFTP, TAPI Dialup and direct COM port connections. It is commercial software, originally released in 1999 and is still in regular development by Brian Pence of Celestial Software.- Features :Some features... |
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| ALFTP ALFTP ALFTP is an FTP client and personal FTP server utility from ESTsoft for Microsoft Windows. It is part of ESTsoft's ALTools product family.While it has been available in Korean since 2000 as freeware , it was first made available in English in 2004, and has since been made available in over ten... |
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| BitKinex BitKinex -Overview:BitKinex is a multiprotocol FTP client, supporting FTP, SFTP, HTTP .The FTP features on one-click commands list, multipart download and multi thread browse.... |
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| Captain FTP Captain FTP Captain FTP is an FTP client for Mac OS X, developed by Xnet Communications. Version 4.5 includes automated uploading/downloading, file sharing, synchronizing and a tabbed interface. Captain FTP also provides a Dashboard widget for uploading files, the virtual folders feature can also be used to... |
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| cURL CURL cURL is a computer software project providing a library and command-line tool for transferring data using various protocols. The cURL project produces two products, libcurl and cURL... (CL) |
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| CurlFtpFS CurlFtpFS CurlFtpFS is a filesystem for accessing FTP hosts based on FUSE and libcurl, which offers the following features amongst others:* SSLv3 and TLSv1 support;* the ability to connect through tunneling HTTP proxies;... |
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| CuteFTP CuteFTP CuteFTP is a series of FTP client applications developed by GlobalSCAPE since 1996, with both a Windows-based or Mac-based interface and made for both home and professional use.... |
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| Cyberduck Cyberduck Cyberduck is an open source FTP and SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files, Google Docs, and Amazon S3 client for Mac OS X and Windows licensed under the GPL. Cyberduck is written in the Java language and using the Cocoa user interface framework. It supports FTP/TLS , using AUTH TLS as well as directory... |
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| Directory Opus Directory Opus Directory Opus is a popular file manager program, originally written for the Amiga computer system in the early to mid 1990s... |
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| ExpanDrive ExpanDrive ExpanDrive is a Network file system client for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows that facilitates mapping of local volume to any SFTP server the user can access. It also can connect to FTP servers and Amazon S3. When a server is mounted with ExpanDrive any program can read, write, and manage remote... |
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| FAR Manager FAR Manager FAR Manager is an orthodox file manager for Microsoft Windows and a clone of Norton Commander... |
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| Fetch Fetch (FTP client) Fetch is a full-featured GUI-based Mac OS-only FTP client made by Fetch Softworks. The latest version of Fetch is 5.6; the long-awaited version 5 was released on May 24, 2005. In addition to basic FTP functionality, Fetch includes such features as editing files without having to download them and... |
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| FileZilla FileZilla FileZilla is free, open source, cross-platform FTP software, consisting of FileZilla Client and FileZilla Server. Binaries are available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. It supports FTP, SFTP, and FTPS . As of 18 April 2011, FileZilla Client was the 7th most popular download of all time from... |
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| FireFTP FireFTP FireFTP is a free, open source, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox in the form of an add-on. It supports FTP, FTPS, and SFTP. FireFTP is charityware and runs on platforms that Firefox supports.- Features :... |
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| FlashFXP FlashFXP FlashFXP is a proprietary, well-established, and mature FTP client under active development sporting a simple Windows-based GUI. FlashFXP supports both client-to-server and server-to-server transfers... |
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| FTP Commander FTP Commander FTP Commander is an FTP client for Windows. The program is developed by InternetSoft Corporation. Features include multiple connections, SSH, SSL, scheduler and backup tool, proxy and firewall support, chmod features, and localization for over 20 languages... |
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| FTP Explorer FTP Explorer FTP Explorer is an FTP client application for the Microsoft Windows operating system which was originally developed in 1996 by Alan Chavis, founder of FTPx Corp.... |
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| FTP Voyager FTP Voyager -FTP Voyager:FTP Voyager is an FTP/FTPS/SFTP client for Microsoft Windows with support for the following features:*FTP/FTPS/SFTP protocols*Directory synchronization*Use of multiple file transfer threads*File searching*Custom FTP commands... |
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| Fugu Fugu (software) -External links:* *... |
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| gFTP GFTP gFTP is a free/open source multithreaded FTP client. It is most used on Unix-like systems, such as Linux, Mac OS X and Sony PlayStation. It includes both a GUI and a command-line interface... |
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| GoAnywhere Director Linoma Software Linoma Software is the developer of managed file transfer and encryption solutions. Linoma Software’s customers are primarily made up of mid-sized companies, large enterprises and government entities including city, county and state government... |
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| Interarchy Interarchy Interarchy is a file transfer application for Mac OS X. It is engineered by Nolobe Pty Ltd.-Features:Interarchy is an RFC standards compliant TCP/IP file transfer client... |
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| LeechFTP LeechFTP LeechFTP is a multi-threaded freeware FTP client by Jan Debis.-History:The product was originally written in Delphi 3. The last release, version 1.3 build 207, was made public in April 1999... |
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| lftp Lftp lftp is a command-line file transfer program for UNIX and Unix-like systems. It was written by Alexander Lukyanov, and is made available under the GNU General Public License.... (CL) |
(cygwin Cygwin Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows. Cygwin provides native integration of Windows-based applications, data, and other system resources with applications, software tools, and data of the Unix-like environment... ) |
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| Macfusion Macfusion Macfusion is an open-source network file-system client, based on FUSE, CurlFtpFS and SSHFS.-External links:**... |
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| Mosaic Mosaic (web browser) Mosaic is the web browser credited with popularizing the World Wide Web. It was also a client for earlier protocols such as FTP, NNTP, and gopher. Its clean, easily understood user interface, reliability, Windows port and simple installation all contributed to making it the application that opened... |
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| NcFTP NcFTP NcFTP is an FTP client program which debuted in 1990 as the first alternative FTP client. It was created as an alternative to the standard UNIX ftp program, and offers a number of additional features and greater ease of use.... (CL) |
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| net2ftp Net2ftp net2ftp is a web based FTP client, written in PHP.-Features:As well as offering standard FTP functions, net2ftp also offers a variety of features including archiving and extracting files and directories, downloading a selected group of files and/or directories as an archive.net2ftp can be set to... (webbased) |
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| PSFTP (PuTTY PuTTY PuTTY is a free and open source terminal emulator application which can act as a client for the SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP computing protocols and as a serial console client... ) (CL) |
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| Robo-FTP Robo-FTP Robo-FTP is a secure, script-driven Microsoft Windows FTP and HTTP client designed to conduct unattended file transfers with normal FTP and 128-bit SSH and SSL secure servers. New features include an integrated script editor and scheduling utility. Robo-FTP also features integrated PGP... |
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| SFTPPlus SFTPPlus SFTPPlus is a commercial SSH server and client with additional audit and automation functions in order to meet regulatory and corporate compliance requirements. It is developed by Pro:Atria Ltd and runs on both Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems, including Linux and Solaris... |
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| Secure FTP Secure FTP (software) Secure FTP is a Java-based FTP client developed by Glub Tech. Some of its features include: FTPS , bookmarks, compression, proxy and firewall support, multiple connections, chmod, drag-and-drop, command-line scripting, and localization for 8 languages, including English, French, German, Spanish,... |
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| SmartFTP SmartFTP SmartFTP is an FTP/FTPS/SFTP client for Windows, developed by SmartSoft Ltd. Features include SSL/TLS, IPv6 and FXP support, a backup tool, a transfer queue, proxy and firewall support, multiple connections, chmod features, Drag-and-drop and localization for over 20 languages, including English,... |
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| Swish Swish (SFTP client) Swish is a shell extension that allows Windows Explorer to manage files using SFTP.It can be used to transfer files to and from a remote server but can't open them directly.-External links:... |
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| Sysax FTP Automation Sysax FTP Automation Sysax FTP Automation is a Secure file transfer automation program for the Windows operating system. It consists of a script generation wizard, script editor and debugger, and a task scheduler. It also contains a secure command line FTP Client program called sysaxftp.exe that is a secure drop-in... |
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| Total Commander Total Commander Total Commander is an Orthodox File Manager software for Windows, Windows CE, and Windows Mobile. Some features include a built-in FTP client, file compare, archive file navigation, and a versatile multi-rename tool with regular expression support.... |
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| Transmit Transmit (FTP client) Transmit is an FTP client for Mac OS X and Mac OS Classic . Developed by Panic, Transmit is shareware – after a seven-day trial period, the product can only be used for seven-minute sessions until it has been purchased.... |
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| UploadFTP UploadFTP UploadFTP is an FTP/SFTP/FTPS/FTPES/FXP client for Windows, developed by Brightek Software. UploadFTP is shareware – after a fourteen-day trial period, the product should be purchased... |
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| WebDrive WebDrive WebDrive is an FTP client developed by South River Technologies. The latest version of the software is 10.00. Webdrive integrates WebDAV, FTP, Amazon S3 or SFTP so that linked server resources function as a mapped network drive.... |
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| WinSCP WinSCP WinSCP is a free and open source SFTP, SCP, and FTP client for Microsoft Windows. Its main function is secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers basic file manager and file synchronization functionality... |
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| WISE-FTP WISE-FTP WISE-FTP is a FTP client for Microsoft Windows which is developed and distributed by the German company AceBIT, located in Darmstadt. Apart from using the normal FTP protocol, Wise-FTP supports SSH and FTPS protocols and the cryptographic protocols SSL and TLS... |
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| WS FTP WS FTP WS_FTP is an FTP client produced by the American company Ipswitch, Inc. for the Windows operating systems.WS_FTP is one of the oldest Shareware FTP clients still around today dating back to the early 90's. It was originally developed in 1993 by John A. Junod, who sold the marketing rights to... |
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| Yummy FTP Yummy FTP Yummy FTP is an FTP client for Mac OS X made by Yummy Software. It supports FTP, FTPS, and SFTP. It is noted for its customizable interface and automation capability using AppleScript.-Further reading:******... |
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| Client | Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... |
Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... |
BSD | Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna... |
AmigaOS AmigaOS AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga personal computer. It was developed first by Commodore International, and initially introduced in 1985 with the Amiga 1000... |
(CL) Command-Line interface only – no GUI
Protocol support
Information about what internet protocolInternet Protocol
The Internet Protocol is the principal communications protocol used for relaying datagrams across an internetwork using the Internet Protocol Suite...
s the clients support. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the clients or extensions that provide such functionality.
| Client | FTP File Transfer Protocol File Transfer Protocol is a standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host to another host over a TCP-based network, such as the Internet. FTP is built on a client-server architecture and utilizes separate control and data connections between the client and server... |
FTP over SSH | SFTP SSH file transfer protocol In computing, the SSH File Transfer Protocol is a network protocol that provides file access, file transfer, and file management functionality over any reliable data stream... |
FTPS (FTP over SSL) FTPS FTPS is an extension to the commonly used File Transfer Protocol that adds support for the Transport Layer Security and the Secure Sockets Layer cryptographic protocols.... |
FXP (Site2site transfer) File eXchange Protocol File eXchange Protocol and is a method of data transfer which uses FTP to transfer data from one remote server to another without routing this data through the client's connection. Conventional FTP involves a single server and a single client; all data transmission is done between these two... |
DAV / HTTP(S) WebDAV Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning is a set of methods based on the Hypertext Transfer Protocol that facilitates collaboration between users in editing and managing documents and files stored on World Wide Web servers... |
Compression Data compression In computer science and information theory, data compression, source coding or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation would use.... |
Remote Compression | API / Commandline available | Resume Download |
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| 3D-FTP 3D-FTP 3D-FTP is an FTP/FTPS/SFTP client for Windows, developed by SiteDesigner Technologies, Inc. The first version was released 1999.3D-FTP is used to transfer files between your computer and FTP servers... |
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| AbsoluteTelnet AbsoluteTelnet AbsoluteTelnet is a software terminal client for Windows that implements Telnet, SSH 1 and 2, SFTP, TAPI Dialup and direct COM port connections. It is commercial software, originally released in 1999 and is still in regular development by Brian Pence of Celestial Software.- Features :Some features... |
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| ALFTP ALFTP ALFTP is an FTP client and personal FTP server utility from ESTsoft for Microsoft Windows. It is part of ESTsoft's ALTools product family.While it has been available in Korean since 2000 as freeware , it was first made available in English in 2004, and has since been made available in over ten... |
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| BitKinex BitKinex -Overview:BitKinex is a multiprotocol FTP client, supporting FTP, SFTP, HTTP .The FTP features on one-click commands list, multipart download and multi thread browse.... |
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| Captain FTP Captain FTP Captain FTP is an FTP client for Mac OS X, developed by Xnet Communications. Version 4.5 includes automated uploading/downloading, file sharing, synchronizing and a tabbed interface. Captain FTP also provides a Dashboard widget for uploading files, the virtual folders feature can also be used to... |
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| CrossFTP | (Pro only) | (Pro only) | (Pro only) | (Pro only) | (Pro only) | |||||
| cURL CURL cURL is a computer software project providing a library and command-line tool for transferring data using various protocols. The cURL project produces two products, libcurl and cURL... |
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| CurlFtpFS CurlFtpFS CurlFtpFS is a filesystem for accessing FTP hosts based on FUSE and libcurl, which offers the following features amongst others:* SSLv3 and TLSv1 support;* the ability to connect through tunneling HTTP proxies;... |
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| CuteFTP CuteFTP CuteFTP is a series of FTP client applications developed by GlobalSCAPE since 1996, with both a Windows-based or Mac-based interface and made for both home and professional use.... |
(Pro only) | (Pro only) | (HTTP(S) – Pro only) | (Pro only) | ||||||
| Cyberduck Cyberduck Cyberduck is an open source FTP and SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files, Google Docs, and Amazon S3 client for Mac OS X and Windows licensed under the GPL. Cyberduck is written in the Java language and using the Cocoa user interface framework. It supports FTP/TLS , using AUTH TLS as well as directory... |
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| Directory Opus Directory Opus Directory Opus is a popular file manager program, originally written for the Amiga computer system in the early to mid 1990s... |
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| ExpanDrive ExpanDrive ExpanDrive is a Network file system client for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows that facilitates mapping of local volume to any SFTP server the user can access. It also can connect to FTP servers and Amazon S3. When a server is mounted with ExpanDrive any program can read, write, and manage remote... (Mac) |
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| ExpanDrive ExpanDrive ExpanDrive is a Network file system client for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows that facilitates mapping of local volume to any SFTP server the user can access. It also can connect to FTP servers and Amazon S3. When a server is mounted with ExpanDrive any program can read, write, and manage remote... (Windows) |
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| FAR Manager FAR Manager FAR Manager is an orthodox file manager for Microsoft Windows and a clone of Norton Commander... |
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| Fetch Fetch (FTP client) Fetch is a full-featured GUI-based Mac OS-only FTP client made by Fetch Softworks. The latest version of Fetch is 5.6; the long-awaited version 5 was released on May 24, 2005. In addition to basic FTP functionality, Fetch includes such features as editing files without having to download them and... |
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| FileZilla FileZilla FileZilla is free, open source, cross-platform FTP software, consisting of FileZilla Client and FileZilla Server. Binaries are available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. It supports FTP, SFTP, and FTPS . As of 18 April 2011, FileZilla Client was the 7th most popular download of all time from... |
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| FireFTP FireFTP FireFTP is a free, open source, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox in the form of an add-on. It supports FTP, FTPS, and SFTP. FireFTP is charityware and runs on platforms that Firefox supports.- Features :... |
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| FlashFXP FlashFXP FlashFXP is a proprietary, well-established, and mature FTP client under active development sporting a simple Windows-based GUI. FlashFXP supports both client-to-server and server-to-server transfers... |
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| FTP Commander FTP Commander FTP Commander is an FTP client for Windows. The program is developed by InternetSoft Corporation. Features include multiple connections, SSH, SSL, scheduler and backup tool, proxy and firewall support, chmod features, and localization for over 20 languages... |
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| FTP Explorer FTP Explorer FTP Explorer is an FTP client application for the Microsoft Windows operating system which was originally developed in 1996 by Alan Chavis, founder of FTPx Corp.... |
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| FTP Voyager FTP Voyager -FTP Voyager:FTP Voyager is an FTP/FTPS/SFTP client for Microsoft Windows with support for the following features:*FTP/FTPS/SFTP protocols*Directory synchronization*Use of multiple file transfer threads*File searching*Custom FTP commands... |
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| Fugu Fugu (software) -External links:* *... |
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| gFTP GFTP gFTP is a free/open source multithreaded FTP client. It is most used on Unix-like systems, such as Linux, Mac OS X and Sony PlayStation. It includes both a GUI and a command-line interface... |
(control connection only) | |||||||||
| GoAnywhere Director Linoma Software Linoma Software is the developer of managed file transfer and encryption solutions. Linoma Software’s customers are primarily made up of mid-sized companies, large enterprises and government entities including city, county and state government... |
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| Interarchy Interarchy Interarchy is a file transfer application for Mac OS X. It is engineered by Nolobe Pty Ltd.-Features:Interarchy is an RFC standards compliant TCP/IP file transfer client... |
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| LeechFTP LeechFTP LeechFTP is a multi-threaded freeware FTP client by Jan Debis.-History:The product was originally written in Delphi 3. The last release, version 1.3 build 207, was made public in April 1999... |
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| lftp Lftp lftp is a command-line file transfer program for UNIX and Unix-like systems. It was written by Alexander Lukyanov, and is made available under the GNU General Public License.... |
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| Macfusion Macfusion Macfusion is an open-source network file-system client, based on FUSE, CurlFtpFS and SSHFS.-External links:**... |
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| Mosaic Mosaic (web browser) Mosaic is the web browser credited with popularizing the World Wide Web. It was also a client for earlier protocols such as FTP, NNTP, and gopher. Its clean, easily understood user interface, reliability, Windows port and simple installation all contributed to making it the application that opened... |
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| NcFTP NcFTP NcFTP is an FTP client program which debuted in 1990 as the first alternative FTP client. It was created as an alternative to the standard UNIX ftp program, and offers a number of additional features and greater ease of use.... |
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| PSFTP (PuTTY PuTTY PuTTY is a free and open source terminal emulator application which can act as a client for the SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP computing protocols and as a serial console client... ) |
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| Robo-FTP Robo-FTP Robo-FTP is a secure, script-driven Microsoft Windows FTP and HTTP client designed to conduct unattended file transfers with normal FTP and 128-bit SSH and SSL secure servers. New features include an integrated script editor and scheduling utility. Robo-FTP also features integrated PGP... |
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| SFTPPlus SFTPPlus SFTPPlus is a commercial SSH server and client with additional audit and automation functions in order to meet regulatory and corporate compliance requirements. It is developed by Pro:Atria Ltd and runs on both Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems, including Linux and Solaris... |
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| Secure FTP Secure FTP (software) Secure FTP is a Java-based FTP client developed by Glub Tech. Some of its features include: FTPS , bookmarks, compression, proxy and firewall support, multiple connections, chmod, drag-and-drop, command-line scripting, and localization for 8 languages, including English, French, German, Spanish,... |
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| SmartFTP SmartFTP SmartFTP is an FTP/FTPS/SFTP client for Windows, developed by SmartSoft Ltd. Features include SSL/TLS, IPv6 and FXP support, a backup tool, a transfer queue, proxy and firewall support, multiple connections, chmod features, Drag-and-drop and localization for over 20 languages, including English,... |
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| Swish Swish (SFTP client) Swish is a shell extension that allows Windows Explorer to manage files using SFTP.It can be used to transfer files to and from a remote server but can't open them directly.-External links:... |
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| Sysax FTP Automation Sysax FTP Automation Sysax FTP Automation is a Secure file transfer automation program for the Windows operating system. It consists of a script generation wizard, script editor and debugger, and a task scheduler. It also contains a secure command line FTP Client program called sysaxftp.exe that is a secure drop-in... |
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| Total Commander Total Commander Total Commander is an Orthodox File Manager software for Windows, Windows CE, and Windows Mobile. Some features include a built-in FTP client, file compare, archive file navigation, and a versatile multi-rename tool with regular expression support.... |
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| Transmit Transmit (FTP client) Transmit is an FTP client for Mac OS X and Mac OS Classic . Developed by Panic, Transmit is shareware – after a seven-day trial period, the product can only be used for seven-minute sessions until it has been purchased.... |
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| UploadFTP UploadFTP UploadFTP is an FTP/SFTP/FTPS/FTPES/FXP client for Windows, developed by Brightek Software. UploadFTP is shareware – after a fourteen-day trial period, the product should be purchased... |
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| WebDrive WebDrive WebDrive is an FTP client developed by South River Technologies. The latest version of the software is 10.00. Webdrive integrates WebDAV, FTP, Amazon S3 or SFTP so that linked server resources function as a mapped network drive.... |
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| WinSCP WinSCP WinSCP is a free and open source SFTP, SCP, and FTP client for Microsoft Windows. Its main function is secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers basic file manager and file synchronization functionality... |
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| WISE-FTP WISE-FTP WISE-FTP is a FTP client for Microsoft Windows which is developed and distributed by the German company AceBIT, located in Darmstadt. Apart from using the normal FTP protocol, Wise-FTP supports SSH and FTPS protocols and the cryptographic protocols SSL and TLS... |
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| WS FTP WS FTP WS_FTP is an FTP client produced by the American company Ipswitch, Inc. for the Windows operating systems.WS_FTP is one of the oldest Shareware FTP clients still around today dating back to the early 90's. It was originally developed in 1993 by John A. Junod, who sold the marketing rights to... |
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| Yummy FTP Yummy FTP Yummy FTP is an FTP client for Mac OS X made by Yummy Software. It supports FTP, FTPS, and SFTP. It is noted for its customizable interface and automation capability using AppleScript.-Further reading:******... |
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| Client | FTP File Transfer Protocol File Transfer Protocol is a standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host to another host over a TCP-based network, such as the Internet. FTP is built on a client-server architecture and utilizes separate control and data connections between the client and server... |
FTP over SSH | SFTP SSH file transfer protocol In computing, the SSH File Transfer Protocol is a network protocol that provides file access, file transfer, and file management functionality over any reliable data stream... |
FTPS (FTP over SSL) FTPS FTPS is an extension to the commonly used File Transfer Protocol that adds support for the Transport Layer Security and the Secure Sockets Layer cryptographic protocols.... |
FXP (Site2site transfer) File eXchange Protocol File eXchange Protocol and is a method of data transfer which uses FTP to transfer data from one remote server to another without routing this data through the client's connection. Conventional FTP involves a single server and a single client; all data transmission is done between these two... |
DAV / HTTP(S) WebDAV Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning is a set of methods based on the Hypertext Transfer Protocol that facilitates collaboration between users in editing and managing documents and files stored on World Wide Web servers... |
Compression Data compression In computer science and information theory, data compression, source coding or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation would use.... |
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See also
- File Transfer Protocol (FTP)File Transfer ProtocolFile Transfer Protocol is a standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host to another host over a TCP-based network, such as the Internet. FTP is built on a client-server architecture and utilizes separate control and data connections between the client and server...
- Comparison of FTP server softwareComparison of FTP server softwareThe table below compares basic characteristics of notable FTP Servers. This list is not exhaustive.- See also :* List of FTP server software* File Transfer Protocol * FTP over SSL * FTP over SSH* SSH file transfer protocol...
- Comparison of SSH clientsComparison of SSH clientsAn SSH client is a software program which uses the secure shell protocol to connect to a remote computer. This article compares a selection of popular clients.-General:-Platform:...
– note that many of these, although not listed here, also have an SFTP capability