Re: FTP over TLS/SSL

What about just using sftp? It's a standard implementation of ftp over ssl... but not exactly the same thing as just tunneling ftp through a prebuilt ssl socket (in much the same way that ssh is basically rsh over ssl and https is http over ssl). Many (most / all? I wouldn't want to over-state) ssh daemons function as sftp daemons as well, and there are tons of free sftp clients out there with which perl can work.

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Re^2: FTP over TLS/SSL by jdalbec (Deacon) on Nov 23, 2004 at 04:16 UTC
Sftp is not interoperable with FTP over TLS/SSL (see RFC 2228 FTP Security Extensions). OSes (e.g. IBM z/OS) that use non-ASCII character sets (e.g. EBCDIC) may not have working sftp clients or servers even if they have working SSH clients and servers because of character set translation issues.	[reply]
Re^2: FTP over TLS/SSL by nimdokk (Vicar) on Nov 22, 2004 at 22:51 UTC
From everything I've read in the Net::SFTP is built on top of Net::SSH. Which from what my architect tells me is not the same as SSL. I've played with Net::SFTP though I'm not completely happy with it. We are looking at the SSL instead. It should also allow additional download options that SSH would.	[reply]
Re^3: FTP over TLS/SSL by etcshadow (Priest) on Nov 23, 2004 at 00:08 UTC
SFTP is built on SSH, which is built on SSL. `------------ :Wq Not an editor command: Wq` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: FTP over TLS/SSL by nimdokk (Vicar) on Nov 23, 2004 at 00:10 UTC
I'll have to take another look at it. At this point, I'm just dipping my feet into this whole thing. And I could well be getting some conflicting or incomplete information as well.	[reply]
Re^5: FTP over TLS/SSL by hsinclai (Deacon) on Nov 23, 2004 at 03:20 UTC


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