FTP Question

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Devin Whalen wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I had to create a perl program for a client.  Basically, it fetches an
> XML file from a third party's server and inserts values into a database
> based on the XML for our client, then it creates another XML file and
> sends that to the third party's server.  I was told that the third party
> were going to use sftp.  However, after a having problems getting the
> sftp to connect to the ip address provided I contacted the third party
> and he said he could connect fine using cuteFTP (a windows app).  So I
> go to a windows machine and try with this program and it works.  Then I
> see that it is using ftp, not sftp, but also it is using this: FTP with
> TLS/SSL Port 990 implicit.  I have no idea what TLS/SSL Port 990
> implicit means?  Has anyone on this list come across this?  Do you know
> how I can do this from the command line?  Using some windows program is
> not an option, this has to be automated.  Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.

Hey,

This probably means that they are transparently tunneling the
normal FTP connection through an SSL connection which is, of
course, encrypted.  Use stunnel(8) to wrap the ftp(1) call.

behdad


> Thanks.

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