Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The cloud may be taking over as the de facto online storage solution, but the need for FTP (file transfer protocol) clients ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever watched an e-mail application choke on a 4MB attachment, you know that sometimes you need an alternative to directly sending or receiving files. And if you’ve ever e-mailed a crucial ...

If you’re here reading this, chances are you already know the merits of the File Transfer Protocol. You’re probably well aware of just how handy it can be when you need to send a large file, but if ...

In every organization, sharing files is an everyday workplace task. Sharing files insecurely, however, can be an expensive risk for any organization. To eliminate such risks, organizations should ...

Web browsers are good at downloading individual files, and e-mail programs are good at sending relatively small files to another person. But for heavier-duty file-transfer tasks, such as uploading ...

When one thinks of the Internet, the first thing that comes to mind is surfing from one Web site to another. Being able to go from Web site to anothe, and view the contents is indeed the reason that ...

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 ...

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 ...