# About the FTP activity package

> FTP activities for connecting to and transferring files over FTP, SFTP, and FTPS servers.

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The FTP activity package has been made open-source. Feel free to collaborate on our [Github repositories](https://github.com/UiPath/Community.Activities).
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The FTP activity package enables the user to connect to a File Transfer Protocol server and perform all the fundamental actions within it, such as searching, downloading, uploading, deleting, or creating, both for files and directories.

The [Use FTP Connection](https://docs.uipath.com/activities/other/latest/workflow/with-ftp-session) activity is a container designed to enable the user to connect to an FTP Server, perform multiple actions and then disconnect from the server.

The connection to the server can be stored in an `FtpSessionGen` variable. This variable is unique for each File Transfer Protocol server you connect to and can be reused to connect to the server as many times as desired.

## Supported encryption methods and algorithms

The FTP activity package supports all encryption methods and algorithms provided by the [SSH.NET](https://sshnet.github.io/SSH.NET/) library.