This is the first-part in a series of articles about different options for secure file transfers. I won't cover how to sniff connections, steal passwords or if SSH is really "secure". But hopefully, I can provide some information that will be . . .
This is the first-part in a series of articles about different options for secure file transfers. I won't cover how to sniff connections, steal passwords or if SSH is really "secure". But hopefully, I can provide some information that will be valuable for your web hosting clients and for you -- the Apache webserver administrators. This first article covers a file transfer client for the end users -- it requires a secure shell server to be installed on the web server.

Yes, Secure iXplorer is for Microsoft Windows. Basically, iXplorer is a Microsoft Explorer-like, graphical front-end to a modified pscp, which is a text-based (DOS) scp client for Windows. (Pscp is from the same author of the popular PuTTY SSH client).

iXplorer seems to be a great option for Windows-only "webmasters" who need to upload files. And as an added bonus, it is open source -- the code is available. It was written in Delphi by Lars Gunnarsson of Austria and is available via http://www.i-tree.org/. It was officially released as version 0.3 in September 2000 and it has had active development the past several months with updates, bug fixes and improvements.

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