By drupalnutt on

Hi Guys'
Could I get a quick consensus of the top 2 or 3 best FTP Clients to use with Drupal 5 and 6?
Also, what about SFTP as an improvement for security?

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dries arnolds’s picture

dries arnolds
Primary language Dutch
Location 🇳🇱 Amsterdam
commented

Drupal doesn't have specific demands for ftp. That's server related. Same goes for sFTP. It has increased security, but it doesn't make Drupal on itself more secure.

My ftp client of choice:
Filezilla - http://filezilla-project.org/

But any other client will do fine.

baseballsws3’s picture

baseballsws3 commented

I second pixelstyle's recommendation.

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francewhoa
he/him
Primary language French
Location Sept-Îles, Québec, 🇨🇦
commented

I second Filezilla too. Like Drupal Filezilla is open source. Often updated. And available on Windows, Ubuntu (Linux), All other Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and more. WinSCP seems great but it's only available on Windows.

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arh1’s picture

arh1 commented

i would also recommend FileZilla for windows. if you're using a Mac, i've heard good things about FUGU and Cyberduck. with any other OS, you're probably using a command-line client :)

and for the record, you should always use sftp as opposed to regular ftp if at all possible. with regular ftp, your password will be sent across the Net in cleartext.

deciphered’s picture

deciphered
Primary language English
Location Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
commented

I disagree with FileZilla, the best ftp client for PC has to be WinSCP, the synchronization options and live editing can't be matched, which is a problem as I primarily develop on my MacBook now and I really miss WinSCP.

You can get it from http://winscp.net/ (free).

Cheers,
Deciphered.

drupalnutt’s picture

drupalnutt commented

Thank you all very much, I really appreciate the help pointing to Filezilla. Also, thanx for the info on FUGU and WinSCP. Community makes all the difference at Drupal.org.