What ftp client do you use?

What ftp client do you use to upload small and mediums sized sites to the w

[red_gorilla]

So the question is what software do you use and what is better?
I’m using built-in ftp-client in Total Commander, file manager like old Norton :-). I think it’s fast, friendly but you can’t schedule your tasks and do other useful things...

[kodaks]

Here is a thread that lets you know about a large amount of options:
[webmasterworld.com...]

[red_gorilla]

thanks for the link

[kazecoder]

FileZilla its free and it works well.

[red_gorilla]

I downloaded ws_ftp and was very disappointed. We are using squid proxy at my local network and ws_ftp almost can't be configured to use such kind of connection. :-((
The single was is changing the configuration of squid. I don't think that our system administrator will be happy to do this….
I also downloaded trial version of CuteFTP Pro and FileZilla. So my opinion is that at first sight CuteFTP and WS_FTP has most friendly interface and almost the same capabilities. I think that I will try CuteFTP.

[Luddite]

I use the command line most of the time.

[serutan]

I have been using WS_FTP LE for several years with no problems. My version is probably out of date (5.008) but it runs fine on XP and it was free.

[py9jmas]

We are using squid proxy at my local network and ws_ftp almost can't be configured to use such kind of connection.

Squid is a HTTP proxy, not a FTP proxy. How it works with browsers is a browser sents a HTTP-like request like "GET ftp://ftp.example.com/" to Squid. Squid connects to the FTP server, gets a file listing, generates a HTML webpage of the file listing and returns that to the browser. The browser then renders the HTML in the normal way. There are many features of FTP Squid, as a HTTP proxy, can't support.

FTP clients don't understand HTTP, or HTML so a Squid proxy is useless to them. They would have to srape the returned HTML to get back to the file listing.

Some FTP clients can cope if all you want to do is download say ftp://ftp.example.com/pub/whatever.zip since given the full URL, it can send the HTTP-like request and gets the file back. There's no HTML involved.