Midnight Commander is my favorite FTP tool But is SFTP possible??

[Keith Roberts]

On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Paul Hartman wrote:

> To: Mc at gnome.org
> From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Midnight Commander is my favorite FTP tool But is SFTP possible??
> 
> On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net> wrote:
>> On Sat, 6 Aug 2011, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
>>
>>> To: jtwdyp at ttlc.net
>>> From: Yury V. Zaytsev <yury at shurup.com>
>>> Subject: Re: Midnight Commander is my favorite FTP tool But is SFTP
>>> possible??
>>>
>>> On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 15:19 -0400, Joe Philbrook wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is this possible with MC?
>>>> If not are there any plans to implement such a thing??
>>>> It would be awesome...
>>>
>>> Support for SFTP is being worked on right now by Ilya. I don't have any
>>> ETAs, but there is code that is already functional in git, so it will be
>>> shipped at some point.
>>
>> I'm not sure what platform you are on, but while you are waiting there is
>> gFTP for Linux that supports FTPS, and on Windows there is WinSCP.
>
> SFTP and FTPS are not the same thing, BTW. :)
>
> FTPS is traditional FTP protocol with SSL-encrypted control channel
> SFTP is SSH File Transfer Protocol, not related to traditional FTP

OK. Thanks for pointing that out and correcting me on that 
Paul ;)

Kind Regards,

Keith

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