

The SFTP extension supports password and keyboard- interactive authentication, host-key verification, drag and drop transfers to and from the SFTP server and file management options that include renaming or deleting files on the server. It currently supports 32-bit Windows operating systems and a set of basic features that the developers plan to expand in the future. The developers have released an early alpha version of the SFTP extension to the public. Swish is an Open Source Windows Explorer extension that adds SFTP to the list of supported protocols. A basic example is a web server that is only supported SFTP connections because of security restrictions.

This can be problematic in situations where secure connections need to be used.

SFTP, which stands for Secure File Transfer Protocol, is on the other hand not available by default.
