Secure FTP on the Blackberry
January 28, 2007 PC Tips, Reviews No Comments |
It’s probably no surprise that the people at Idokorro came up with a solution to access your website or other FTP server from a Blackberry-after all, their suite of Blackberry apps includes a remote desktop / VNC client as well as a mobile server admin program. But Mobile File Manager, the FTP/SFTP app, might be the best of all. It’s easy to use, and fast (about a 5 second wait for each directory tree). The interface is clear and easy to read. It sells for $35 (volume discounts available for the corporate world), and it seems to be well worth the price.
Of course, if you already own Mobishark’s Sharkmodem software (reviewed previously on this blog), you can also use that to connect to your FTP site, through a standard FTP client. Just set the proxy for 127.0.0.1 with port 3128, and Sharkmodem will establish a secure socket connection to your FTP server so that you can upload and download files. If you can’t control the timeout, though, beware–file download is slow (.5KBps), so you can’t get much more than 30KB for every minute of your timeout. The auto-timeout on the FTP server I log into is 3 minutes, so my limit is around 100KB for download/upload.