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Raw Site Settings
You can use raw site settings to setup advanced site settings.
In scripting, use -rawsettings switch of scripting command open (when the settings cannot be configured using session URL nor using any dedicated switch of the command).
In .NET assembly, use SessionOptions.AddRawSettings method (when the settings cannot be configured using any dedicated property of SessionOptions class).
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For both cases, you can just configure the advanced settings on Advanced Site Settings dialog and have WinSCP generate the code for you.
You will also use raw site settings syntax to mass-modify stored sites using /batchsettings command-line parameter.
Common Advanced Settings
| Name | Description | Values |
|---|---|---|
PingType |
Keepalives1 | 0 = Off, 1 = Sending of null SSH packets, 2 = Executing dummy protocol commands |
PingIntervalSecs |
Seconds between keepalives | |
ProxyMethod |
Proxy type | 0 = None, 1 = SOCKS4, 2 = SOCKS5, 3 = HTTP, 4 = Telnet (SFTP/SCP protocols only), 5 = Local (SFTP/SCP), For additional options with FTP protocol, see FtpProxyLogonType |
ProxyHost |
Proxy host name | |
ProxyPort |
Proxy port number | |
ProxyUsername |
Proxy username | |
ProxyPassword |
Proxy password | |
FtpProxyLogonType |
FTP proxy types | 1 = SITE %host, 2 = USER %proxyuser, USER %user@%host, 3 = OPEN %host, 4 = USER %proxyuser, USER %user, 5 = USER %user@%host, 6 = USER %proxyuser@%host, 7 = USER %user@%host %proxyuser, 8 = USER %user@%proxyuser@%host |
ProxyDNS |
Do DNS name lookup at proxy end | 0 = Off, 1 = On, 3 = Auto |
ProxyLocalhost |
Consider proxying local host connections | 0 = Off, 1 = On |
ProxyTelnetCommand |
Telnet proxy command | |
ProxyLocalCommand |
Local proxy command | |
Compression |
SSH session compression | 0 = Disabled, 1 = Enabled |
SshProt |
SSH protocol version | 0 = SSH-1, 3 = SSH-2 |
SshNoUserAuth |
Bypass authentication entirely | 0 = Disabled, 1 = Enabled |
Cipher |
SSH encryption cipher selection policy | Comma-separated list of cipher preference order, where names of ciphers are aes, blowfish, 3des, arcfour and des. Token WARN is used to delimit substandard ciphers. Example: blowfish,aes,3des,WARN,arcfour,des |
KEX |
Key exchange algorithm selection policy | Comma-separated list of KEX preference order, where names of KEXes are ecdh, dh-gex-sha1, dh-group14-sha1, rsa, and dh-group1-sha1. Token WARN is used to delimit substandard KEXes. Example: ecdh,dh-gex-sha1,dh-group14-sha1,rsa,WARN,dh-group1-sha1 |
AuthKI |
Attempt keyboard-interactive authentication | 0 = Disabled, 1 = Enabled |
AuthGSSAPI |
Attempt GSSAPI authentication | 0 = Disabled, 1 = Enabled |
TryAgent |
Attempt Authentication Using Pageant | 0 = Disabled, 1 = Enabled |
FtpAccount |
FTP account | |
FtpForcePasvIp2 |
Force IP address for passive mode connections | 0 = On, 1 = Off, 2 = Auto |
FtpUseMlsd |
Use MLSD command for directory listing | 0 = On, 1 = Off, 2 = Auto |
Tunnel |
Connection tunneling | 0 = Disabled, 1 = Enabled |
TunnelHostName |
Tunnel host name | |
TunnelPortNumber |
Tunnel port number | |
TunnelUserName |
Tunnel user name | |
TunnelPasswordPlain |
Tunnel password | |
TunnelHostKey |
Fingerprint of expected SSH tunnel host key | |
TunnelPublicKeyFile |
Path to tunnel private key file | |
Utf |
UTF-8 Encoding for Filenames | 0 = Off, 1 = On, 2 = Auto |
Shell |
Shell (SCP protocol) | |
LookupUserGroups2 |
Lookup user groups | 0 = On, 1 = Off, 2 = Auto |
LocalDirectory |
Local Directory2 | |
TimeDifference |
Time zone offset | Hexadecimal representation of 64-bit IEEE 754 floating point number (double), representing the offset in days. Example: 555555555555A5BF = -1 hour3 |
ConsiderDST |
Daylight Saving Time | 0 = Adjust remote timestamp with DST, 1 = Adjust remote timestamp to local conventions, 2 = Preserve remote timestamp |
ResolveSymlinks |
Resolve symbolic links | 0 = Disabled, 1 = Enabled |
FollowDirectorySymlinks |
Follow symbolic links to directories | 0 = Disabled, 1 = Enabled |
SftpServer |
Path to SFTP server binary | For example sudo su -c /bin/sftp-server |
SFTPMaxVersion |
Preferred SFTP protocol version | 0-5 = SFTP version number |
MinTlsVersion |
Minimum TLS/SSL version | 3 = SSL 3.0, 10 = TLS 1.0, 11 = TLS 1.1, 12 = TLS 1.2 |
MaxTlsVersion |
Maximum TLS/SSL version | See MinTlsVersion |
SendBuf |
Optimize connection buffer size | 0 = Off, Any positive value = On, value indicates size of the buffer, with recommended value of 262144 The SshSimple may need to be set to 1 to disable some of the optimizations, that unchecking the GUI option disables. |
EOLType |
End-of-line characters | 0 = LF, 1 = CRLF |
PostLoginCommands |
FTP Post login commands | If you need to execute multiple commands, separate them by new-line (line-feed, hexadecimal UTF-8 code 0A). I.e. in scripting use %0A (-rawsettings PostLoginCommands=CMD1%0ACMD2), in C# use \n, in PowerShell use `n |
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Other Settings
To find correct syntax for settings not listed above, configure the setting in the GUI, store it into a site, save configuration to an INI file and use the same syntax as you find an INI file.
Example
For example to enable HTTP proxy, in scripting:
open <session_url> -rawsettings ProxyMethod=3 ProxyHost=proxy
or in .NET assembly (using PowerShell):
$sessionOptions.AddRawSettings("ProxyMethod", "3") $sessionOptions.AddRawSettings("ProxyHost", "proxy")
- Enabling keepalives has very limited effect in scripting (except for
keepuptodatecommand) and almost no effect in .NET assembly.Back - Note that Remote Directory can be set using session URL, you do not need to use raw site settings for it.Back
- In C# you can calculate -1 hour offset using:
string.Join("", BitConverter.GetBytes(TimeSpan.FromHours(-1).TotalDays).Select(b => b.ToString("X2"))).Back