To configure the (S)FTP options, open the Preferences dialog box and go to . You can customize the following options:
Figure: The (S)FTP Configuration Preferences Panel
- Encoding for FTP control connection - The encoding used to communicate with FTP servers: either ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8. If the server supports the UTF-8 encoding Oxygen XML Editor will use it for communication. Otherwise it will use ISO-8859-1.
- Public known hosts file - File containing the list of all SSH server host keys that you have determined are accurate. The default value is ${homeDir}/.ssh/known_hosts.
- Private key file - The path to the file containing the private key used for the private key method of authentication of the secure FTP (SFTP) protocol. The user / password method of authentication has precedence if it is used in the Open URL dialog.
- Passphrase - The passphrase used for the private key method of authentication of the secure FTP (SFTP) protocol. The user / password method of authentication has precedence if it is used in the Open URL dialog.