- martin
In older version of winscp when loggeed in as ssh stop at continue pop up message when Banner and MOTD is set to off mode.
but this is fixed in lastest open sources i would like to know the code that fixed it.
In older version of winscp when loggeed in as ssh stop at continue pop up message when Banner and MOTD is set to off mode.
but this is fixed in lastest open sources i would like to know the code that fixed it.
And WebDAV (which is based on http, a much better protocol than ftp) is maturing quickly. It is very easy to setup a secure WebDAV server over SSL to allow authenticated uploading, with very fine level of access controls. The current issue for WebDAV to replace authenticated ftp uploading is on the client side. Now if a low-cost, user-friendly WebDAV client appears ...
it would be great if WinSCP supported FTP, or alike program :)
I'm just wondering if it would also be possible to support ftp on the command line?
The plain ftp connection is insecure because username/password are trasnfered in clear text, as you have known it. But this is only part of the reason. Both the plain ftp and encrypted ftp (i.e., ftp over SSL/TLS) need two ports on both the server side and the client side; while port 21/tcp or 990/tcp (i.e., the command port) on the server is fixed and always in listening mode (i.e., waiting for a client to connect), the data port varies and on the active ftp mode it is not in listening mode. Due to this complicate nature, it is very difficult to set firewall and other security policy to protect the server or the client. It is this very reason that people say ftp was not designed with security in mind.
FTP over SSL/TLS only solves part of the problem.
It sounds that you very much hate FileZilla. Did you know that the new WinSCP 4.0 beta actually uses the ftp engine from the FileZilla project? And both WinSCP and FileZilla use code from PuTTY for sftp/scp support. In my opinion all these open-sourced software deserves credit.
It sounds that you very much hate FileZilla. Did you know that the new WinSCP 4.0 beta actually uses the ftp engine from the FileZilla project? And both WinSCP and FileZilla use code from PuTTY for sftp/scp support. In my opinion all these open-sourced software deserves credit.
Will are you support FTPS ?
It is not planned yet. Now has ever asked for that so far :-)
*) Because ftp is a totally different beast to sftp, and adding ftp support is like to open a can of warm to WinSCP;
Then what about ftp over ssl? then what about fxp support? then what about active and passive modes? automatic fallback from active mode to passive? what about user-decided port range? what about automatic resuming of transfer? what about UTF-8 support? how to deal with ftp sites that by dafault won't list directory contents? etc, ect, etc,
All these will come to feature-request list one day, what are you going to do with them then? Bow to these requests again and add them all? One day user may request you to add smb:// support, http:// support, vfs://support, behavior like Norton-Command/Midnight Command, ... and ultimately like a dual-panel file manager, and even replace Windows Explorer, ... even to replace the OS? I am not joking, some user already fiddling with WinSCP as a file manager, look at this forum.
I wish WinSCP v3 will still be mainteined at least, for bug-fixing, fine-tuning, tracing the upstream PuTTY version, etc, etc.
Right now PuTTY v0.60 has been released and WinSCP v3.8.2 is still with v0.58.
What is WinSCP heading for? Will there be a WinSCP Lite version that only does sftp/scp? or just continue support WinSCP v3 as a legacy project?
Sometimes I don't quite standand, I can turn the user interface of FilZilla almost identical to the default looking of WinSCP with few mouse clicks, why would so many users not to go with FileZilla for their crying-for, desired unified program for both ftp/sftp, instead they keep begging WinSCP to add ftp support, which is not its design goal.
I am not claiming FillZilla covers 100% what WinSCP provides, but most of users requesting ftp support here just need a unified program for both ftp and sftp file transfer, with a nice GUI, which I believe FileZilla perfectly meets the requirement.
I'm not sure if you intentionally left this out, but you could have WinSCP associates itself as the default handler of ftp:// urls as well, as it does with sftp and scp.
Wow. Wowowowowow. I mean, WOW.
Yes, it's so bad that intelligent words cannot describe my joy! Only yesterday, I was lamenting on how unfortunate it was that I had to use FileZilla and not WinSCP for my FTP needs... and I lazily meandered over to winscp.com, not really truly believing you would have FTP support by now (since I'm aware that is simply not what WinSCP is designed for)... and imagine my surprise! Holy cow, you've never seen FileZilla uninstalled faster.
Thank you, thank you, thank you...! *swoon*
Maybe you're not aware of what a gem you have here... so, let me break it to you with two phrases: "keep remote directory up to date" and "synchronise browsing".
Truly, words can't describe how happy this makes me. As soon as I stop being piss poor (I'm a student and only just donated to another cause - silly me), you're getting a huge wad of money for being awesome. Ohgod. Bliss. *fangirls all over WinSCP and goes spamfest her friends about the great news*
Maybe you're not aware of what a gem you have here... so, let me break it to you with two phrases: "keep remote directory up to date" and "synchronise browsing".
I just used the FTP connection in the beta release. Very nice work. It's great to have a unique interface to all SFTP and FTP servers at once. I don't think that the world needs any other Windows FTP client than yours
Will are you support FTPS ?
It's been a few months since this thread has had any activity. Is there an ETA on when we might expect to see some FTP support?
Will it be possible to edit files "in place" on server also with FTP-protocol?
I just want to say that this news makes me very happy! I love WinSCP's interface and have been lucky enough to have a host that allows me shell access so I can use it. But I'm thinking of switching hosts and they don't want to hand out shell access willy-nilly. I can't wait for FTP support! Everyone donate so he knows we want this feature!
I have to say I'm blown away by the lack of support for FTP. I used to be a SmartFTP user, but the constant reminders to register were simply getting too much. Since then I've been looking for a perfect FTP client and someone told me about yours. The interface and features are unmatched in WinSCP, but when I tried to connect to my home FTP, at first I thought I was going crazy and couldn't belive there wouldn't be support for such an obvious feature... very, very disheartening... I only have need for SFTP when connecting to client servers, which is 1% of the time... such a shame an app this great will go to waste :(
Hopefully, FTP support will be included in the next release.
I can't say how extremely happy I am to hear that. Seriously.
WinSCP is, honestly, the world's BEST file transfer client I have ever used, and that's not exaggerating. There is nothing I want that it cannot do, and it does them elegantly. The UI makes perfect sense for people like me who HATE Norton-Commander-style splitting, which, annoyingly, is the only way to do it in most FTP clients. The only catch was that most of my clients do not provide SFTP nor SCP to work with, and I'm stuck with FileZilla. I can rant on for pages and pages about how FileZilla is probably the world's worst FTP client, with extremely poor Windows integration and not even drag-and-drop support, but there's no point since I'm removing it from my computer now and forever.
Thank you once again for the best new-year gift ever. Literally can't wait for the next version. Enjoy your holidays.
Hopefully, FTP support will be included in the next release.
Having legacy FTP support built in or as an addon would make WinSCP, which I currently simply CANNOT live without Very Happy, the single most useful tool I currently have installed on my Winblows box
FTP is very unsecure protocol and should be used only for public (anonymous) ftp servers. Otherwise it's dangerous and outdated protocol
That's not about SFTP protocol. It is just dumb thing from implementers of SFTP protocol in OpenSSH server.
I'd have loved to see FTP support to use the directory synchronise feature among others.
I am greately disappointed to learn that SFTP requires shell access, and I think it's really dumb thing to do from the SFTP protocol designers.
FTP is very unsecure protocol and should be used only for public (anonymous) ftp servers. Otherwise it's dangerous and outdated protocol
The problem is that the UI if Winscp is so ingenious that all we wish is an FTP-Client whith the same interface.
It is a pity that noone writes an FTP-client as good as WinSCP.
Although I understand Prikryl: Writing a perfect SCP/SFTP-Client is enough of a task, someone else should write the perfect FTP-Client.
Prikryl, I hope you see that ever-lasting feature request as a compliment like I do.
Regards!
Lew Myschkin
Prikryl, I hope you see that ever-lasting feature request as a compliment like I do.