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Fetch 5.8
Your best friend for file transfer.
What’s New in Fetch 5.8
Fetch Features
Fetch and Security
Fetch 5.8 includes a number of features aimed at improving your ability to protect the privacy of your data.
SFTP and FTP with TLS/SSL (FTPS)
The SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) and FTP with TLS/SSL are two increasingly popular methods for transferring files without sending passwords "in the clear" (where an attacker could possibly intercept them). Fetch 5.8 includes full support for both SFTP and FTP with TLS/SSL, so users can transfer files from public wireless hotspots and other public locations without worry. You can have
Proxy Servers
Many users in business and government are behind firewalls and proxy servers, which can restrict their ability to transfer files to outside servers. Fetch features support for eleven different kinds of proxy servers, as well as support for SOCKS 4 and SOCKS 5 gateways (including Microsoft Proxy 2.0 for Windows NT and Windows 2000). The Automatic Passive Mode feature makes file transfers through firewalls more reliable.
Keychain
Fetch supports the Mac OS X Keychain, for secure storage of frequently used passwords.
One-Time Passwords
S/Key and OTP are two systems for keeping passwords private by sending a different password (computed from the actual secret password) each time. Fetch can perform this computation automatically, offering greater security with no loss of convenience.
Challenge-Response Systems
Some security systems offer a challenge that must be entered into a special calculator in order to produce the correct response. Fetch allows users to enter the special password "***CHALLENGE***" and be prompted at the appropriate time for the computed response.
Web Publishing with Fetch
Fetch 5.8 includes the features you need to maintain your web site.
Uploading Web Pages
Uploading a file to your web server is as simple as clicking the Put button, or dragging the file’s icon from the Finder. Fetch will automatically pick the correct format, quickly upload entire folders, and detect stalls and network or server errors and automatically resume uploads for you. Fetch includes extensive help, including tutorial topics to walk you through uploading your website for the first time.
WebView
WebView lets you set up a correspondence between files in Fetch and the address of the webpage they are part of, so that you can easily view changes to your website in a web browser by selecting files and clicking Fetch’s WebView button. You can also copy links to those files for sending to clients and colleagues with the Copy Web Address command.
Mirror Folders
The Mirror command lets you quickly upload all the changed files in a folder, efficiently keeping your website up to date. You can save the command as a mirror document to be placed in your Dock for one-click website updates. You can even mirror between two different servers, to move a website from a staging server into production.
File Management
The Fetch file list works just like the Mac OS X Finder, so you can rename files by typing Return, move files by dragging them onto folders, and delete them by clicking the Delete button. You can use Quick Look to view text, image, audio, movie, and many other kinds of files without leaving Fetch, and edit any kind of file in any application and save the changes back to the server automatically.
Account Management
Fetch helps you stay on top of your web account. The Get Info command lets you total the size of all the files in your account, so that you can manage your usage of disk space.
The Get Info command also lets you keep directories private, or make CGI scripts executable, with a user interface that translates cryptic Unix permission codes to plain English and back.
“Since the mid-90’s Fetch has been my FTP client of choice, and it’s still the easiest and most intuitive client in 2009. Now with Quick Look in v5.5 finding the right media file on a server is a snap! Fetch is everything that’s good about using a Mac.”
--Jamie Kahn Genet, Librarian and Mac geek
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