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LFTP includes the following features (some may be missed in this list):

• FTP and HTTP protocols support.
• FTP (e.g. TIS FWTK) proxy support.
• HTTP proxy support.
• FTP over HTTP proxy support (hftp and CONNECT method).
• HTTPS and FTPS protocols support using GNU TLS or OpenSSL library.
• Automatic OPIE/SKEY support in FTP protocol.
• FXP transfers support (between two FTP servers, bypassing client machine).
• FTP listings support: unix-style, NT, EPLF, OS/2, AS400, MacWebStar, MLSD.
• FTP implicit compression (MODE Z) support.
• Automatic reconnect and retry of an operation on retriable errors or timeout.
• IPv6 support in both FTP and HTTP.
• FISH protocol support. It uses ssh with no special program on server side.
• SFTP protocol v3-v6 support.
• HTTP/1.1 keep-alive support.
• HTTP basic and digest authentication.
• Partial WebDAV support.
• BitTorrent protocol support (including IPv6).
• BitTorrent extensions: Fast, DHT, PEX, Multi-tracker, Metadata, magnet.
• Experimental support for SRV DNS records.
• SOCKS support (configure option).

• Modification time preservation (if server can report it).
• `reget' and `reput' support.
• Built-in mirror and reverse mirror (mirror -R).
• Transfer rate throttling for each connection, for each host and for all connections in total.
• Limit for number of connections to the same site. Interruption of background transfer to do a foreground operation when the limit is reached.
• Socket options tuning: buffer size and maximum segment size.
• Job queueing.
• Job execution at specified time.
• Comprehensive scripting support.
• URL recognition in most operations.
• Readline library is used for input.
• Context sensitive completion.
• Bash-like prompt extensions.
• Launching of local shell commands.
• Suspend support.
• Bookmarks.
• Aliases.
• Saving of last directory on each site. `cd -' to go there.
• Copying of files (including mirror) between two servers over the client, automatic usage of FXP when possible to bypass the client.
• Numerous settings which can be associated with a specific server or a group.
• Paging of remote files using external program.
• `zcat' and `zmore' support.
• Help for commands.
• Command history saved in a file.
• Transfer status includes rate and ETA.
• File listing cache.

• Background jobs (bash-like).
• Job output redirection to a file or to a program via pipe.
• Conditional commands depending on exit status of previous one.
• Loading of binary modules at run time (configure option).
• `pget' to download a file using several connections. `pget' download can be continued as it saves a status file periodically.
• `mirror' can download several files in parallel (--parallel option) and a single file with `pget' (--use-pget-n option).
• Slots. Each slot is a separate session, switch using Meta-{1-9} or `slot' command. Refer to a slot site using pseudo URL slot:name.