Agnivo Roy

A FTP program or FTP Client is one of the indispensable tools that a webmaster, web developer or a script installer should have. A FTP program ( File Transfer Protocol ) enables you to transfer (upload/download) files and folders to a web-space on a server easily. The FTP protocol was solely devised and being used for serving the purpose of management of data on a web server or remote server.

You must be aware that there are a lot of free and paid FTP programs available on the net, but how many of them are feature rich or stable ? FTP users are quite familiar with incomplete uploads, time-outs and hanged UI. Even the paid shareware applications are not stable or worth the money sometimes. I guess you have always wanted a free yet stable and feature rich FTP client which is maintained and updated well ? Then, look no further than FileZilla - A Free, Open Source (GPL) and multi-platform capable (version 3) FTP client for public use.

FileZilla Client is a free, open source FTP client for Windows. It supports FTP, SFTP, and FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS).

FileZilla Server is an FTP server supported by the same project. It supports FTP and FTP over SSL/TLS.

FileZilla 3 (Client) is currently in development. A sixth beta has been released. Binaries are provided for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.

FileZilla’s source code and downloads are hosted on SourceForge. SourceForge featured FileZilla as the Project of the Month in November 2003 and was also voted the best networking program in the 2006 SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards.

The main features of FileZilla are:

• Ability to resume Uploads/Downloads (if the server supports it)
• Custom Commands
• Site Manager with folders
• Keep Alive system
• Timeout detection
• Firewall support
• SOCKS4/5 and HTTP1.1 Proxy support
• SSL secured connections
• SFTP support
• Upload/Download Queue
• Drag&Drop
• Multi-language support
• GSS authentication and encryption using Kerberos
• Command-line arguments

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More functionalities and updates coming up with FileZilla 3. So what are you waiting for ? Make the switch today…