What is War FTP Daemon?
War FTP Daemon is a popular free FTP server, written by Jarle (jgaa) Aase in Norway. War FTP Daemon has become the most successful FTP server for Windows, ever. It was an instant success when it was released in 1996, and has only gained more and more popularity. Since 1997, I have been working on the successor. There has been War FTP Daemon 2.0, which were discontinued due to design flaws, and 1.70, that was a major rewrite, and has been the most popular version up to today. In July 2000, version 3, a total redesign of the server, was being prepared for beta-release. It ran under Windows, Linux and FreeBSD. But, – there was still room for improvements, and the design had limitations in how easy the server could be extended and modified. In October 2000, a well known international company, who wanted a FTP server as an embedded part of a larger industrial system, contacted me. This new approach – to design a the server to be totally generic, and to be part of another application, actual
