
Once that client is installed it should be able to register itself as the correct URI handler for SFTP links and launch automatically when you encounter a sftp_URI such as (with fewer or more parameters as defined here). Therefor you will need to launch a separate client that does support the SFTP protocol to successfully connect to an SFTP server.

Since SFTP also not really a common/native/appropriated Microsoft protocol, no support for that protocol is included in the default MS (client) tools/libraries either. The SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) is neither that simple, nor does it have the same historic legacy, and thus support for that protocol is (usually) not built into web browsers. For a web server that protocol is HTTP or HTTPS and web browsers, as the tool of choice to connect to web servers, have support for the HTTP and HTTPS protocols built in.įor historic reasons and probably because FTP is a really simple protocol many web browsers also have/had that native FTP protocol support built in. ProFTPD is a high-performance, extremely configurable, and most of all a secure FTP server, featuring Apache-like configuration and blazing performance. Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB. Runs on Windows, Linux, BSD, macOS and more.

Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) Cross-platform.

The tool you use to connect to a server must support the protocol required by the server. Among others, the features of FileZilla include the following: Easy to use.
