Which FTP client for Windows XP?
 

I am looking for recommendations for an FTP client for Windows XP. A woman in my office uses Fetch for her Mac but I need one for my laptop which is running Windows XP.

Thanks,

Onedog

http://filezilla-project.org/

Free and open source :)

FlashFxp, been using it for many years and I will probably never use anything else.

I second filezilla. I also keep a copy of it on my usb key.

Filezilla is a nice app.

If you're willing to spend the money, I'm a CuteFTP fan.

Um, what about DOS? Or the command window if you will. Yes, I'm old.

If not DOS, you can always just use Internet Explorer.

ftp://username : password @ hostname

Drag & drop those files right in.

Why would you?

Drag and drop is so much quicker than command line FTP. I really don't see a single reason anyone would still use CLI for it over GUI...

I started using WinSCP last week. It seems to work fine so far. I choose that client because I need secure connections.

WS_FTP 6.0 works great. It was the last freeware version, iirc.

The FTP Pro version also works very well but is not freeware.

If you can't find WS_FTP 6.0 (Or WS_FTP LE) I'd be happy to email it to you.

I prefer the FileZilla user interface over that of CuteFTP or WS_FTP. I was a longtime user of LeechFTP but that hasn't been updated in close to a decade now and doesn't support sftp.

I'm a big fan of Core FTP Pro. Not free. Not sure how the features compare to Filezilla. Probably not much different, but CoreFTP has lots of security features (SSL, TLS, or SFTP). It has a nice download manager, a site manager (store credentials of multiple FTP sites), etc.

I have one use for a command-line FTP app.

In my business (television production), I have to occassionally FTP files to an (ancient) piece of equipment where the destination directory doesn't actually exist - it's a phantom directory that converts the standard file I'm transferring into it's own proprietary format. The destination directory doesn't appear in GUI-based applications.

Fortunately, not only is there a command-line FTP app in Windows, but this once-cutting-edge piece of equipment is being phased out almost entirely from my encounters.

Just one example...

Well you could always just type .......(ta da!!!!).... ftp ........... at a command prompt. :D For those old timers who know how to actually use ftp from a command prompt. Microsoft's version is more or less "UNIX" like.

Another vote here for WinSCP. I have one site that gives me fits with Filezilla, but WinSCP worked without a hitch.

Long time user of WS_FTP Pro. Probably out of habbit as much as anything else, I've always installed it on every new machine I've had.

Not the fanciest, not the prettiest, but it works great, offers security if your site reqiures it, etc.

Ditto here. It was about my favorite interface of any.

If you're using Firefox, FireFTP extension is free and I've been more than happy with it, including the fact that I don't have to open yet another app when I need to FTP.

Little thing called options. Most Windows users wouldn't know about that. ;)

That and the fact that I've been using command line FTP for 20 years or so now.

i used to use flashfxp a lot. also a couple others i dont remember.

it used to shock me how few clients allowed FTP-FTP. probably not like that anymore though.