Alternative FTP client

[Derek Broughton]

Donn wrote:

>> That's what I would have thought Jonas meant, and I _only_ use encrypted
>> FTP - either sftp: or fish: (sftp is generally better, fish I think works
>> if the only open port is 22, for ssh).
> 
> He sent me this off-list:
>> ftps is when you encrypt the ftp control and or data channels with
>> TLS/SSL and is the only way to use ftp if you dont want to send your user
>> and
> password in clear text over the wire. You can read more on
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ftps
> 
> I don't know anything about ssl, and I'm not sure I want to ;) but it
> looks like something Konqi (gasp) can't do ! The horror!

No.  He's wrong - sftp and fish both work by establishing an ssh connection
first, so I never send my user id and password in clear text.  (I'm not
sure if the user id might be, but the password certainly isn't - in fact it
isn't usually even present).
-- 
derek