Connection timeout when SFTP not supported

I try to use SFTP on my client's sites whenever possible. With one of my clients WinSCP showed a completely blank login dialog and essentially hung (no dialog updates) until the timeout/reconnect dialog came up. In this case, I was expecting it to either work or give me an appropriate error message. The actual behavior was confusing until I remembered to switch from SFTP to FTP.

Anonymous wrote:

I try to use SFTP on my client's sites whenever possible. With one of my clients WinSCP showed a completely blank login dialog and essentially hung (no dialog updates) until the timeout/reconnect dialog came up. In this case, I was expecting it to either work or give me an appropriate error message. The actual behavior was confusing until I remembered to switch from SFTP to FTP.

That was with version 4.2.7 (build 761) on XP SP3.

(Why won't it let me enter my username when submitting the bug? It always says the username is already taken. -- swe9)