martin wrote:

FTPS (and streaming) is supported by the native .NET FtpWebRequest class. Though it has its limitations. For example it does not support TLS/SSL session resume. What can indeed be a showstopper (now or later).

This is exactly our issue.

FTPS (and streaming) is supported by the native .NET FtpWebRequest class. Though it has its limitations. For example it does not support TLS/SSL session resume. What can indeed be a showstopper (now or later).

Yes, we had legacy code working with FTP and streams.

When customer changed the authentication protocol, we had to look for another dotnet library and yours was the only one explicitly working with FTPS.

Unfortunately streams are currently not supported in WinSCP and our app does run without a volume (serverless architecture) so we cannot use the GetFileToDirectory method.
Moreover, we're trying to refactor as less code as we can as working with legacy code is always a struggle.

@Eyl: So what did you use before with FTP that does not work anymore with FTPS?

Sorry, I was unclear.

I was talking about returning a stream when using GetFile method with FTPS.
We had a code working with FTP and streams, but the customer changed the authentication protocol to FTPS and WinSCP is our only chance to make the app work as usual.

I'm following the aforementioned tracker (https://winscp.net/tracker/1945) and voted there.

Thank you for your work.

@Pieter: This request has been added to the tracker:
Issue 1945 – Streaming support in .NET assembly for FTP protocol
You can vote for it there.

Hi,

Can we please have this for FTPS also please I would really want to use this library.

Regards,
Pieter

This has been implemented for SFTP:
Issue 1738 – Stream interface in .NET assembly

I am breaking the news to my boss right now that WINSCP does not support the transfer of streams.

Same here !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would like such a feature to stream videos over WinSCP protocol from my PC. The protocol is "much safer" than "Samba", but much less convenient in terms of viewing video and listening Audio by not able to "streaming"

I would like such a feature to stream videos over FTP from my NAS. Entering each video URL into VLS is very inconvenient compared to double clicking in WinSCP.

@XceS: What do you mean by "FileStreams"? Are you sure you want the same, what this topic is about?

Please make FileStreams available ... need it

I would find this very useful as well

Thanks for your suggestion.
Will see if more people ask for this.

ES File Explorer on Android has a useful feature. When you connect to a remote server (SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, etc.) and open a file, it serves the file via a built-in web server, which allows the opening application to read only the parts of the file that it needs to. This allows skipping around without media files or extracting a specific file from a large archive without downloading the whole file.

I wish I could do this on Windows as well.