Talk:FileZilla

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[edit] Doc

The doc is way out of date. I'm gonna update the command lines here for posterity:

FileZilla does support some basic command line options. The supported options are:

  • URL: You can specify a URL FileZilla connect to when started
  • -d <sourcefile> <targetdir>: Downloads the specified file from the server into the target dir
  • -u <sourcefile> <targetdir>: Uploads the specified file into the target dir on the server. *<sourcefile> has to be the full path of the file.
  • -t <targetname>: Only valid together with -u or -d: Specifies an alternate name for the target file.
  • -s <site>: A saved site
Example: 
filezilla.exe -u "c:\Program File\FileZilla\FileZilla.exe"  ftp://user:pass@ftp.myserver.com/upload -t CoolProg.exe

[edit] WINE

A while back, I added in that it is known to work at least somewhat well on WINE, but that was deleted becuase 'almost any Windows application can'. Actually, my expirience tells me that very few can nowadays, so I was thinking that it might be appropriate to add in. Thoughts? WBHoenig 02:00, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Please avoid WP:OR. I didn't remove the remark on wine, however it is true that wine runs A LOT of apps--especially the simple and popular open source ones. It might be appropriate to mention that FZ 3 will have Linux support and that FZ 2 works under wine (with citations for both of these). --Karnesky 02:37, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Okay, then. You seem to have a lot more experience here than I do, so I'll let you decide WBHoenig 02:35, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 9x/ME

"As of version 2.2.23 FileZilla uses Unicode internally. As a result, it no longer runs on Windows 9x/ME."

This is helpful information -- but not as useful as it appears. The developer has abandoned Windows 9x/ME users, although the older versions seem to still be available. We need to know exactly what is the last best stable version we CAN use. 2.2.22 (2006-04-20 13:05)? Is there a usable changelog somewhere, organized by version number? 69.87.202.246 01:05, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

PortableApps suggests Win 95/98/ME use 2.2.22 [1] which can be downloaded here. 69.87.199.253 02:16, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Date/TimeStamp

It seems that it is impossible to upload a file with FTP and retain the original file Date/TimeStamp. If there is a way to do this with FileZilla -- How? It just has a setting for downloads. Uploaded files are timestamped with current time. I have just wasted a half day trying every possible way, with every program I can think of. Why is there such a limitation, and what ways might there be to get around it? I guess one could zip files into an archive and transfer them that way... But I don't know how to get them unpacked at the other end. What a big nuisance! 69.87.203.244 01:49, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] relation to Mozilla foundation?

Is there any? Mathiastck 18:32, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

None. --Prikryl 15:05, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Controversy...

Perhaps somebody should add a section about the controversy regarding this product... I was a happy camper, until I found out that the latest version of the Filezilla client stored each user's passwords as plaintext! (Contrary to FZ2, where the passwords were at least encrypted somewhat).

Developer knowingly let this security breach pass, because he believed that it was the job of the OS to protect the password file... which is a fairly juvenile way to view Windows!

See his attitude for yourself. 206.248.139.177 03:02, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

I think the important point is encryption (in this context) provides a false sense of security. The developers of the IM software Pidgin, made a similar decision (See Pidgin (software)#Criticisms and current deficiencies or Plain Text Passwords). --Dbolton 03:32, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Description of FileZilla for people who don't understand what it is

Hello everybody. I wanted to read the article about filezilla because I wanted to know what it is. Now I have read it and I STILL don't understand anything. Thus my suggestion: I think you guys who understand something about it should write an introduction to filezilla, which says what it actually is and what you can do with it, that also non-technical people understand. And why is the second point in the whole article that filezilla and filezilla server are not the same thing? Shouldn't there be first a clear point about filezilla? Please try to make this article more clear. Thanks :)--Tilmanb (talk) 07:06, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi. I just checked the page out, and the first sentence reads "FileZilla Client is a free, open source, cross-platform FTP client", which in my very humble opinion is quite clear. Of course, a reader may not be familiar with the technical terms (open source, FTP client, etc), but it's clearly out of the scope of this page to explain those terms, and also they are all wiki links so an interested reader may check them out. A quick revision of the article's history shows that the quoted first sentence was exactly the same, so perhaps you can be a bit more precise on what is it that confused you? Cheers, SaulPerdomo (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 01:37, 31 January 2008 (UTC)