Bug#348142: RFP: kftpgrabber -- A feature-rich KDE FTP client that supports TLS/SSL
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
I just built this application from svn for sid on amd64 and it is very impressive.
It built without protests for KDE 3.5 with GCC 4.0.2. The last release is 0.7
beta1 from 31 Aug 2005; I built from SVN and have had no stability problems. There
are likely still bugs in this release that may compromise stability, but releasing
the application for sid would be the way to discover them.
This is the most feature-rich ftp client I've seen on Linux and it's integrated
into KDE (part of KDE Extragear) is a big plus. There is nothing like this
application in Debian at the moment. The best comparable ftp client for KDE is
KBear, but it is currently not actively maintained and crashes after the first
file transfer. Kasablanca (which is also not in Debian, cf. #292874) is very
elegant, but it is not actively developed and too feature-poor to be a realistic
alternative at this point. There is a serious need for an FTP client that handles
TLS/SSL, as such sites are becoming increasingly common.
* Package name : kftpgrabber
Version : 0.7
Upstream Author : Jernej Kos <kostko at users.sourceforge.net>
* URL : //http://sourceforge.net/projects/kftpgrabber/
* License : GPL
Description : A feature-rich KDE FTP client that supports TLS/SSL
KFTPGrabber is a KDE FTP client. It supports SSL/TLS connections to secure FTP
sites, OTP passwords and FXP transfers. It also has transfer queuing support, and
many more features:
* Multiple FTP sessions (tabs)
* Transfer queue
* TLS/SSL support for encrypted connections
* Partial X509 certificate support for authentication
* FXP transfer support (site-to-site)
* OTP (one time password) support - S/KEY, MD5, RMD160, SHA1
* Drag and drop support
* Site bookmarking
* Encrypted bookmark support (password can be saved to KWallet)
* Distributed FTP support (PRET)
* SSCN and CPSV support
* ZeroConf (aka. Rendezvous) support for local site discovery
* Bookmark sharing with Kopete contacts (KDE >= 3.3)
* Bookmark import plugins
* Support for SFTP protocol
* Traffic graph
* Speed limiting
* Priority and skip lists
* Fast directory listings via control channel on servers that support STAT
* Integrated SFV checksum verifier
* Ability to view/edit remote files
* Exporting of directory listings into text files
* "On file exists" action matrix for Download, Upload and FXP transfers
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
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