[PLUG] FTP Client Recommendations

Matt Alexander lowbassman at gmail.com
Fri Jan 7 06:14:00 UTC 2005


Richard C. Steffens wrote:

>For a number of years, I've been hand building my web sites with a text 
>editor, but transferring them to my space on Comcast using Dreamweaver's ftp 
>tool. For my next project, I'm endeavoring to remain completely winfree. So 
>for, I've succeeded, having developed the site using a Linux text editor 
>(Kate), and have been testing it on my local Apache server.
>
>I will soon want to post it to one of my Comcast sites. I recall from previous 
>discussions on this list that plain ftp is a less preferred alternative, but 
>don't recall what is preferred. From the list archives I see mentions of 
>SFTP, ncftp, and IglooFTP. What do you folks use for an ftp client, 
>particularly anyone who is also maintaining a Comcast user web site?
>
>  
>
There's an extension for Firefox called FireFTP that's pretty good:

http://fireftp.mozdev.org/

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