Support for SFTP and SCP protocols over SSH-1 and SSH-2, FTP protocol, WebDAV protocol and Amazon S3 protocol.Integration with Windows ( drag and drop, URL, shortcut icons).It is also available as a plugin for Altap Salamander file manager, and there exists a third-party plugin for the FAR file manager.

WinSCP is based on the implementation of the SSH protocol from PuTTY and FTP protocol from FileZilla. Since July 16, 2003, it is licensed under the GNU GPL. Originally it was hosted by the University of Economics in Prague, where its author worked at the time. ĭevelopment of WinSCP started around March 2000 and continues.

For secure transfers, it uses the Secure Shell protocol (SSH) and supports the SCP protocol in addition to SFTP. Beyond this, WinSCP offers basic file manager and file synchronization functionality. Its main function is secure file transfer between a local computer and a remote server. WinSCP ( Windows Secure Co py) is a free and open-source SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), WebDAV, Amazon S3, and secure copy protocol (SCP) client for Microsoft Windows.

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