edtFTPnet is an open source FTP client library for Windows licensed under the LGPL. It was first released in 2003, and was ported from edtFTPj. It is supplied as a DLL and can be incorporated into Windows applications that require FTP functionality.
edtFTPnet has also been successfully tested for use on Mono, and so can be used on Unix platforms that support Mono.
edtFTPnet is also known as edtFTPnet/Free. There is also a commercial version known as edtFTPnet/PRO which includes the following additional features: support for FTPS, SFTP and SCP, multiple protocols supported in the one component, multiple, simultaneous transfers by use of FTP connection pools, directory transfers and directory synchronization. The latest version, 12.0, supports TLS 1.3. [1]
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