I wanted to dig deep into the world of freeware file transfer applications that compete with the popular, open-source application – FileZilla. In the past, I’ve used FileZilla as well, and also a ...

Let’s imagine a situation where we want to write a pure Java application that must download files from a remote computer running an FTP server. We also want to filter downloads on the basis of remote ...

WinSCP, aka Windows Secure Copy, is a free, open-source FTP client. Supporting both SFTP and SCP protocols (upshot: secure transfers), WinSCP is fast and lightweight while still supporting advanced ...

Notepad++ is fairly a small application and occupies 5 MB on your drive. You needed to have a client application to transfer files to FTP or Web Servers. After you connect your server with the client ...

When people ask for a recommendation for a good FTP client on Mac OS X, I usually recommend Panic's excellent Transmit. I've been using it since version 1, and have happily upgraded whenever a new ...

In current times if you want to transfer a file to a friend, you can just attach it in an email and send it off. With high speed bandwidth being so cheap and plentiful to the home user, transferring a ...

FTP dæmons may not get much attention, but what attention they do get is in the form of security advisory after security advisory. There's not much hack value for most people in supporting something ...

File Transfer Protocol is an older networking protocol for transferring files to network servers. Here's how to use it on your Mac. We previously covered the Terminal-based SCP protocol, which allows ...