Presently jBoom supports the following connection types:

• FTP. Enter host, user, and path of the remote bookmark file. A password can be entered as well. Note that it will be saved in the configuration file in clear text. If you find that too dangerous, leave the input field empty. The password will then not be saved, but prompted from the user whenever needed.
• SSH. In the corresponding dialog you must choose the authorization method: Password or public key. As for the password, see above. If you choose public key authorization, you have to denote the file that contains your private (!) key. Presently only keys in openSSH format are recognized; keys in ssh.com format have to be converted first. This concerns, for example, to PuTTY users: Use PuTTYGen to convert your keys.
• HTTP. Here the bookmark file is accessed by two separate URLs. One is for downloading and must be provided. The other is for upload and can be provided optionally. When uploading, jBoom appends the bookmarks in XML format to the URL. On the server, a CGI script, servlet or something similar must be installed, which reads and stores the data.

  A simple example: Let the upload URL be

  http://myserver/jboom/jbup.php?passwd=SECRET&file=bookmarks.xml&content=

  The php script on the server could then look like this:
  <?php $file = $_POST["file"]; $passwd = $_POST["passwd"]; $content = $_POST["content"]; if ($passwd == "SECRET") { $fp = fopen($file, "wb"); fwrite($fp, $content); fclose($fp); } else echo "Authentication failure"; ?>
  If the upload URL is missing, the bookmarks are read-only.
  Possibly a password is required in the URL's query string. If you don't want it to be included in the config file (in clear text), replace it by the placeholder ${PASSWD}. JBoom will then prompt you for the password and replace the sequence by the password entered.

If more than one connection is defined, one of them can be selected and moved up and down using the buttons and . However, this is purely optical and doesn't affect the function of jBoom. A click on deletes the selected connection.

At most one connection can be made active by checking the corresponding box. This connection will be used for automatic downloading at startup, and to this connection bookmarks will be uploaded at the end if changes have been made. If an active connection is present, the LED in the toolbar shows a green light. Independent of this setting, bookmarks may be downloaded manually at any time from any connection during a jBoom session.