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Transfer Engine (SDK) 

Transfer Engine Overview 

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What is the Transfer Engine?  

Built on a modular design platform, CuteFTP Professional s FTP Transfer Engine (TE) is 

completely independent of the main application s interface. You can control the TE through 

an industry standard COM (Component Object Model) interface using your favorite 

programming or scripting language, such as Visual Basic, Perl, ASP or JavaScript.  

Unique to CuteFTP s TE are powerful encryption properties that dictate how the control 

and data channels communicate with the FTP server. From SSL to S/key or SSH2, the TE 

covers all your secure file transfer needs.  

Benefits 

The Transfer Engine:  

 Is COM enabled  

 Takes up minimal resources  

 Handles background transfers  

 Handles transfers outside the main interface  

 Handles continuous folder synchronization events 

Can be used with a custom application or script to perform FTP related tasks.  

Capabilities 

The TE exposes most of the popular commands previously accessibly only through the 

application s main interface. Some of the actions you can accomplish using the TE: 

Login to an FTP server over a defined port 

Login using an encrypted authentication mechanism, such as OTP 

Login and transfer files using industry standard SSL/TLS (explicit & implicit modes 

supported) 

Login and transfer files using SSH2 

Login to sites through Firewalls, Socks or Proxy servers 

Transfer files one at a time or simultaneously 

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