Can you guys suggest some good FTP software and download manager? At least it has ability to stop downloading at a point and resume later.

Thanks

Just use the download manager in Mozilla you can pause and resume with it, unless you are looking for something taht you can stop altogether and resume later??

yeah, I just want to know any other fancy ones.

Thank you.

It isn't really fancy, but I use ncftp sometimes when I don't use mozilla.

I use gftp for ftping stuff to and from my webservers, the download manager in mozilla or opera for small web downloads, and wget for large downloads, when I want to download a whole bunch of stuff in a row, or recursively download a whole site.

gFTP for me.

I think it's simple, resumes downloads, and gets the job done

I think download managers suck....so I don't use 'em.

Peace,
Whitehat

How you stop and resume download by using gFTP? Once I stop the download, it just gets deleted.

Normally I think I just use transfers> stop download. If you start the download again (keep the url handy) to the same target directory it should resume automagically (at least that's what it does for me).

wget is superb.no other download manager has got similar features.just check out 'man wget' and you will see.
btw,have you heard abt prozilla,which is a download accelerator?it is also good.
I am waiting for the day when wget and prozilla gets combined;-)
--arun.

I have now changed my opinion of gftp, and have stopped using it. It keeps corrupting images I upload (have tried using both acsii and binary modes), so it's out the door. It's kind of weird, I've never had this problem with it before, but this is probably the first installation where I've used it on it's own without any gnome stuff installed. I've been using ftp from the command line and it seems pretty good, I'm still getting used to it though. I tried IglooFTP but I didn't think it worked very well.

Are there any other graphical ftp proggies (apart from that KBear one or whatever it is) that don't require gnome of kde libs?

How do you stop and start downloads with wget, last time I tried to resume a download it started over again and just renamed the file with a .1 at the end.

You have to set it to noclobber with -nc option.

man wget

wget works just fine for me

<HANDY TIP>
Create some aliases in your bashrc or /etc/profile with custom wget commands for specific needs. For example, here's what I have in /etc/profle for eveyone to use: And now I've added this (thanx for the tip, Kovacs): Makes it easier to separate the commands in wget for specific needs since some of them may conflict. Be sure to source the file (source /etc/profile) after making the changes for the new commands.
</HANDY TIP>

I use 'wftp' for ftp downloads (duh), 'mirror' to create a local mirror of a site, and now 'resumedl' to.......well, you can figure it out.



EDIT: typos

any good graphical ftp programs that also support FXPing ??
and any graphical ftp servers like bulletproof server for windows?

I found a really cool gnome frontend for wget. Check out http://gwget.sourceforge.net/ It supports resume and all of that. And it is simple and easy to use.