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JFTP: The Universal FTP Client (Free program)

Hazem Abbas

Jul 23, 2023 — 4 min read

JFTP is an intuitive, easy to use, graphical FTP client software for transferring files securely over the Internet. JFTP works on many operating systems such as Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX.

JFTP is a graphical FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client software for transferring files from one computer to another over TCP/IP networks such as Internet.

JFTP can connect to any system that has a valid Internet address and an FTP server program, allowing you to transfer files between a wide variety of systems, including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, UNIX and IBM i(AS/400) systems.

JFTP integrates the most widely used and widely accepted security mechanism, SSL (Secured Sockets Layer), to securely transfer your business critical and sensitive data.

JFTP is written entirely in Java(tm), meaning, it can run on a wide variety of platforms such as Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, OS/2, UNIX or any other platform with a compatible JVM (Java Virtual Machine).

Security Features

JFTP integrates the most widely used and widely accepted security mechanism, SSL (Secured Sockets Layer), to securely transfer your business critical and sensitive data.

Support for SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2
Supports several cryptographic algorithms such as RSA, AES, RC4, DES, Triple DES, Diffie-Hellman and DSA
Support for both Explicit and Implicit SSL connections
Option of using SSL if it is supported by the FTP server

File features

File filters give you the ability to decide what all files may be listed, uploaded, downloaded or deleted with in JFTP. You can set up either inclusion or exclusion filters on local and/or remote files based on a variety of criteria such as:

File name pattern using regular expressions
Modification date of the files
Attributes of the files (if a file is hidden or not)
Using file filters, uploading all the files in your site that were modified on a specific date is as easy as a click of a mouse. No more need to spend time in picking up individual files in several directories of your web site.

Transfers

Download files and/or directories. Directories will be processed recursively
Download As option to download a single file or directory (and its contents) as a different name
Download and Unzip option to automatically unzip downloaded zip files
Upload files and/or directories. Directories will be processed recursively
Upload As option to upload a single file or directory (and its contents) as a different name
Zip and Upload option to zip one or more files and/or directories and upload the resulting zip file
Filtered transfers

Simultaneous FTP Sessions

JFTP allows you to work with multiple FTP sites simultaneously. Each session will create a new Tab making it easy to switch between sessions.

Advanced Connection Options

JFTP allows you to specify various advanced connection parameters such as:

Whether to use plain FTP connection or secured FTP connection
Ability to provide an "Account" name for login. Most FTP servers just use user name and password for login, but, some require account name to be specified for login.
Option of encrypting just the command channel to securely transmit the password over the network
Specify initial local and remote working directories to set, upon a successful login
Support for both passive (default) and active data transfers
Allows you to execute raw FTP commands (standard or custom) soon after log in

Proxy/Firewall

JFTP gives you the ability to connect through proxy servers and firewalls.

Supports SOCKS proxy (both version 4 and version 5)
Automatic detection of SOCKS version
Supports SOCKS authentication

Certificate Manager

JFTP comes with a built-in certificate manager to manage all your trusted certificates. Certificates are used to establish secured FTP connections. With JFTP's certificate manger, you can -

Import certificates in to your trusted certificates database
View details of a certificate
Delete certificates from your trusted certificates database

Manage your Favorite FTP Sites

JFTP allows you to store the connection parameters for the FTP sites that you frequently work with. With JFTP, connecting to your favorite FTP site is just one click away! In addition, for added security, JFTP stores all your favorite site definitions in encrypted format.

Remote File Tasks

Browse through the file system of your FTP site
Open/Edit remote files directly using associated applications, modify them and save them back to the FTP server
Print remote files using associated applications
Filter files based on their name pattern and/or modification date
Create new directories
Create new files
Move/Rename files and directories
Delete files and directories
View or change permissions of a file or a directory
Change the permissions of a directory and all of its children
Execute standard or custom FTP commands
Sort directory listing by name, type, size or last modified date

Local File Tasks

Browse through the file system of your PC and computers on your network
Open/Edit local files using associated applications
Print local files using associated applications
Filter files based on their name pattern, modification date and/or attributes
Create new directories
Create new files
Move/Rename files and directories
Delete files and directories
View attributes of a file or directory
Sort directory listing by name, type, size or last modified date

Auto-Detection of Transfer Type

JFTP automatically detects the transfer type (ASCII or Binary) to use for a specific file based on its extension. This feature is very useful when you are transferring hundreds or thousands of files of different types, in which case manually setting the transfer type is impossible.

Internationalization and Localization

Support for Internationalization and Localization. This means JFTP supports multiple languages and Locale specific data such as dates and numbers. You can install as many language packs as you wish and use the language of your choice. The current version of JFTP bundles the following language packs:

English
Chinese (Traditional)
German

Multiple Deployment Options

Choose from a variety of deployment options that best suits your needs and environment.

Native Installation packages

Native installers are available for Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and various Unix like platforms.

Web Start JFTP

Use Java Web Start technology to install JFTP to any number of users with no effort. Just provide the URL of the web start file to all your internal users and relax!

JFTP Applet

The other option is to launch JFTP right in your favorite Internet browser such as Internet Explorer, Netscape or Safari. Just host all the binaries on your web server and relax!

Supported systems

A true Universal FTP Client. JFTP can be installed and run on a wide variety of platforms such as:

Windows
Mac OS X
Linux
Solaris
AIX
HP-UX

Any other platform with a compatible Java Runtime Environment

Platforms

macOS Windows and Linux

License

Apache-2.0 license

Resources

Homepage and Download

Github

Source Code at GitHub

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