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

[Paul Hartman <paul hartman+gentoo gmail com>]

On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Keith Roberts <keith karsites net> wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Aug 2011, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
>
> > To: jtwdyp ttlc net
> > From: Yury V. Zaytsev <yury 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