an ftp client that works, please!

[Me - Atlantic]

On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 17:12 +0100, Rick Chagouri-Brindle wrote:
> If you use Firefox, then I can heartily recommend the fireftp extension 
> . . .
> >
> >
> > On 4/22/06, *Duncan Lithgow * <duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk 
> > <mailto:duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi there,
> >
> >     gFTP and KFTPgrabber have both failed for me and I'm switching website
> >     host in a few days - so I need one that works!
> >
> >     Can someone recommend a rock-solid ftp client for ubuntu?
> >
> >
> 
I've tried FireFTP, and it's ok, but seems to choke on some tasks
(transferring large numbers of files for one).
Also, getting ssl/tls connections to work is a large problem.  I haven't
been able to get it to work on these connections at all.
gFTP can be re-compiled for this support, and, if Ubuntu would just
offer gFTP with that compilation, I would recommend it completely, as it
seems to work quite well for everything I tested it for.  There's also
IglooFTP, which does work quite well, but I'm not sure it's open source.
lftp works pretty well, but I had a few minor issues testing that one.
ftp command line seems to be the most stable (along with using
Nautilus).