DropUpLoad Makes Short Work of FTPing

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DropUpLoad Makes Short Work of FTPing

by Lee Mathews Jul 17th 2008

So you've got a new version of a file that you need to upload to an FTP server. Sure, you could fire up a full-blown client like FileZilla, but why bother? DropUpLoad offers elegantly simply uploads in a tiny, portable package. It's a 114k download and only consumes 9mb of memory, and is very different from other FTP clients.

For example, there's no directory browsing: set up your remote server info (including destination directory) and it will appear in your list of FTP servers. Setting up a new site is child's play, and you can clone settings from an existing server - useful, since you'll have to set up multiple profiles if you upload to more than one folder on your server.

Select your target from the drop down, drag a file or folder from your Windows machine into the "drop box," and you're done.

Need to give a customer upload access to your FTP but don't want to give out passwords? Created a "locked" version of DropUpLoad, which limits connections to a single server and hides and encrypts login information inside the generated executable.

Give it a shot, FTP uploads don't get much easier!

[ via Softpedia ]

Tags: client, ftp, portable, upload

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

john said 6:46PM on 7-17-2008

I started to download the program, but Avast stopped me with a warning about a virus. This was a surprise, but I cancelled the download.

Lee Mathews said 6:46PM on 7-17-2008

No alerts for me, just a nice, clean executable!

tw said 1:09PM on 7-18-2008

ClamAV reports clean.

Marco said 4:50PM on 7-20-2008

If I would have trusted AVAST a single time, I would only have Windows and no other program lol. The application is sure free of viruses. Just use some online scanner... and get a real anti virus scanner, John ;-)

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