Recent changes to feature-requests

Support for Pre transfer (PRET)

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 17:45:02 -0000

I would really like to see support for PRET, as used
for example with drftpd,
http://wiki.drftpd.org/index.php/Distributed_PASV
..

Configuration options

Anonymous — Tue, 25 May 2004 06:24:27 -0000

Some more/advanced configuration options would be nice.
I do alot of overwriting of newer files, web design,
etc. It would be nice to be able to check something
that auto overwrites for the rest of the session. Just
an idea.

IPv6 protocol support by RFC2428

Anonymous — Sat, 27 Mar 2004 11:54:18 -0000

As IPv6 protocol is growing quite fast, there is not good
graphical IPv6-capable client for Linux. It would be nice
feature by that rfc -
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2428.txt .
andrius@andrius.org

Resume Transfers

Anonymous — Sat, 28 Feb 2004 10:11:26 -0000

Hi all !

First, thanks for this very cool software.

Before using KBear, I was using GFTP (very cool
software too), when I realised KBear was a kind of GFTP
for KDE (the interface is quite similar), I decided tu use
KBear intead of GFTP (since I'm using KDE).

But today, I tryed to resume an upload (on a friend's
FTP) with KBear but I haven't found how to do...
So I've returned back using GFTP for this transfer. (GFTP
was able to ask me if I wanted to resume the file)

I think the ability to resume transfers would be an
interesting feature to add to KBear.

Thanks a lot
Keep going.

ssh2 support

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 23:17:11 -0000

Forgive me if this is a dumb request,

I like the way your application is set up -- very
nicely done. However, I need a ssh2 client. Is it
possible to put in support for this?

Server to Server Transfers

Anonymous — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 22:09:23 -0000

For those with Disk Quotas, it would be helpful to have
server to server transfers, especially when internet
access is throttled at your ISP (to possibly get around
it?)

asc/bin "auto" choice, based on filename patterns

Rick Stockton — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 23:57:32 -0000

Filezilla does a GREAT job as a Windows Client (to a
*NIX Server), but KBear doesn't provide a similar
feature for the KDE Client connecting to a Windows
Server. Upoading to WIndoz Web Servers, which can
involve a mix of binary files (graphics, java jars,
multimedia files) and text files (html, css, php) is
very inconvenient.

KBear 2.1 documentation says that "Binary will work in
99% of transfers" and mentions only "some perl scripts"
as an exception... This is badly wrong when
uploading/downloading with Windows Servers.

As Filezilla does, KBear should offer "auto" mode for
ASCII vs. BINARY transfers. When running in "auto"
mode, KBear should transfer all files using Binary,
except for files which match the following (default)
filename patterns:

*.asp *.bat *.c *.cfm *.cgi *.conf *.cpp
*.css *.dhtml *.diz *.h *.hpp *.htm *.html
*.inc *.js *.mak *.nfo
*.pas *.patch *.php *.phtml *.pinerc *.pl
*.qmail *.sh
*.shtml *.sql *.tcl *.tpl *.txt *.vbs

The Filezilla "Edit/Options/File Transfer Settings"
menu provides a panel to choose "auto", "ASCII",
"Binary", with the list of ASCII patterns shown below.
The User can add/delete patterns to this list of files
which should be transfered in ASCII. (For example, I
have added "php3" to the default list).

I must currently use Filezilla on a separate Windows
machine to properly manage ASCII/Binary files which
must be uploaded to a Windows Server. (Download using
Filezilla's "auto" feature, then upload to the Windows
Server from the Windows Client.)

I would much prefer to use KBear, transfering directly
from my Web Development machine to the Windows Server.

I am not capable of code Development (C++ or KDE, or
??) but I would be very happy to contribute
documentation changes, UI design review, and testing
for this feature.

Speed limit

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 23:11:01 -0000

It will be good if user can define the speed of the
connections so faster downloads/uploads could not 'eat'
the bandwidth.

FTP over SSL

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:34:24 -0000

Hi!

Nice application!
One missing thing is ftp over ssl (port 990) - any
plans of including this?

TLS Support

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Oct 2003 13:53:53 -0000

Would be really, really nice; I don't know of a single
graphical client for *nix based operating sytems that works
nicely with FTP-TLS security, and it is supposed to be the
'approved' way of secure ftp communications. OpenSSL
should help you muchly :) I would volounteer my services,
but I have no idea about security and cryptography and
the like - although I could have a bash anyway if noone
else wants to try?