FTP Client why do I need one

[Perryg114]

A while back yahoo, my hosting service, decided to increase security and require me to use something like filezilla to upload stuff to my web sight. This is a royal pain to get setup and working and I can't just upload stuff at will on any PC like I use to. Before I just typed in my ftp:// in the browser bar and everything was fine. Is there an easier way to actually have access to my own web sight without having to go through all this BS? I can't download filezilla at work because of security issues. There is no way I can get filezilla working without just copying the settings from a version that is working. It is not intuitive at all and I don't do this everyday so every install is painful and slow.

Perry

 

[JackMDS]

Maybe this can Help.

http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/filezilla_portable

 

[azazel1024]

Or winSCP or putty (winSCP actually uses putty, but it is much more straight forward and also extensible). Of course no secure FTP client is going to be uber straight forward, because there are a number of things that have to be configured.

SFTP isn't something baked in to windows (last I checked) and even if it was, you'd still need to configure whatever was built in to windows to be able to connect to an SFTP session.

If you need to do it on different computers...why not just write down the configuration settings?

 

[seepy83]

I also recommend WinSCP. It's about as simple as they come for SFTP or FTPS clients, and it's pretty simple to write scripts for if you need to automate anything.

Edit: I'd also recommend asking your IT department if it's alright to put WinSCP on your work computer. They might not be happy if they find it there and didn't approve it.

 

[imagoon]

They likely did it because FTP is plaintext including passwords. Every time you logged in, you were giving your password away to the world.

Filezilla is very simple to use also. You can also export the entire config by opening site manager selecting the entry, right click and export. You use file -> import to import the xml file.

You can also use the portable version and run it right from a USB stick. Granted if security issues block Filezilla, I would take a bet they will consider you updating your website at work a security issue also and potentially a terminable offense.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

If you really can't use FileZilla or another SFTP tool, Yahoo still has a web-based file upload utility.

This happened a couple years ago - I'm surprised you're only running into issues now.