FTP program designed for webmasters whose sites are on UNIX-like hosts.
File Size: 1.14 MB
License: Free to try
OS: Win95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP
Requirements: 32M RAM
20M free HD space
WebMaster FTP is a Windows FTP client and management program designed for webmasters whose sites are on UNIX / Linux / BSD hosts. It can reduce errors, and substantially reduce the time required to perform web site management tasks via FTP. Having everything that you expect from an FTP tool for webmasters, the program also has some unique features like automatic setting of the correct file permissions and more.
Full featured site manager with hierarchy of groups / sites / bookmarks.
Multiple host type support, including UNIX / Linux / NT. Support of UNIX "ls" (with and without group information) and MS-DOS type of listings.
Save remote and local folder pairs as bookmarks to return to them later with a mouse click.
You can assign default local and remote folder for each site.
Detection of server time zone offset for more accurate synchronization and file comparison.
Connections
Keep-alive connections.
FTP firewall with custom FTP commands, allowing any possible combination, including "USER username@host", "SITE host", etc.
SOCKS firewall support and both PASV and PORT data connections.
Automatically execute custom FTP commands after being logged in.
Interface
Friendly, fully rearrangeable user interface. You can view / hide most components for greater flexibility
Program remembers the size and position of all UI components as well as columns information of the file list and sound notification on certain events.
Navigation / listing interface / possibilities
Familiar file / folder navigation interface with the hierarchical tree at left and the list on the right.
Quick view of number and size of the selected or all files. Quick jump to local or remote folder.
Windows icons for local files. User defined icons and descriptions for FTP side files.
Remote links resolution, link overlay icons. Simplifies understanding a bit. Remote executable (script) files overlay icons. Simplifies understanding a bit and quickly handles long local or remote listings of 1000+ files.
Sort files by name, size, extension, date, ascending or descending and case sensitive or case insensitive sorting of the remote files.
Enable / disable, rearrange columns of the file list component.
Flexible caching and refreshing of the remote file listings.
Powerful display file filters. Specify include/exclude file masks, size and/or date range, or disable the filters altogether. These filters also apply to folder transfers.
Progress pop-ups for FTP operations, busy / ready indicators for remote and local browsers. You always know if FTP command is finished or in progress.
Transfers
Full drag & drop transfer / move files support, including local <=> remote, list => tree, list => transfer queue.
Transfer files using buttons, context or top menus and multithreaded simultaneous transfers for maximal throughput and speed.
Re-use of additional transfer threads. This speeds up transfers of small files a bit, as there is no overhead of connection establishment and logging in and transfer and navigate simultaneously. Transfer queue.
Cancel transfers in progress or in queue. Resume interrupted or cancelled transfers and append on upload or download. Perfect for transfer log files.
Recursive transfer of folders with inheritance of the transfer mode and file filter settings.
Flexible transfer mode assignments binary/ASCII/auto via file name and extension or forced and automatic setting of file permissions on upload.
File / folder management
Move files on local or remote computer with drag & drop
Independent menu / tool bars for local and remote browsers. You don't have to switch to the required browser before you perform a file operation.
Create / rename / recursively delete folders. Rename / delete files and Set permissions for remote files.
Full Windows Explorer integration of the local browser. You can perform every action available in Explorer to the files or folders, including Copy / Cut / Paste, Open, Edit, Open With, Send To, Properties, etc.
Local files can be deleted to recycle bin or irreversibly.
You can copy to the clipboard full path of local and remote files or FTP path of remote files.
Tools
Advanced folder synchronization tool with many options: direction, recursion, missing/existing, date, size, include/exclude mask, link, transfer mode, overwrite/skip, delete extra files, etc. You can save synchronization profile to a file and use it later.
Quick compare files ( or files and folders ) tool. Different items are highlighted, so they can be selected and then transferred or deleted, etc.
Keep logs of FTP commands and file transfers and execute custom FTP commands.