Hello, Background: I met with burning need of connecting to tls-enabled ftp server, unfortunatelly the only way I found was using newer lftp clients. In the end I succeded in my mission, by creating very simple tls-only ftp client in perl. Now i'd like to package it as Net::TLSFTP. There already exists Net::FTP module, and I tried to extend it, but it's object model makes this task rather daunting (and at the moment impossible, one needs either deep changes in this model, or changes in underlying modules). I am slowly working on introducing this features to Net::FTP, I already received very helping response from IO::Socket::SSL maintainer, and it's future version will allow introduction of this feature to Net::FTP in realtively painless way. But this is rather distant future. In the meantime, I've got my client working, and entering production environment in a few weeks, so I'd figure I could release it.
FTP security extensions are described in RFC 2228 from October 1997(sic!). Clients that conform to that standard: lftp, lundfxp, WS-FTP-PRO, tlswrap ( ftp proxy ). Servers: proftpd and few commercial/business servers best regards, -- Usuyami no sekai, Dariush Pietrzak Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9
