RE: SSL FTP library?

["McKown, John" <John.McKown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> [mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Gibbs
> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 9:40 AM
> To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
> Subject: SSL FTP library?
>
> Folks:
>
> Anyone know of a good, open source, FTP client library that 
> can deal with iSeries and supports SSL?
>
> I just noticed that the JT400 ftp function doesn't support SSL.
>
> Thanks!
>
> david

David,

On other forums, there has sometimes been confusion between FTPS and sftp. You're talking about "normal FTP", over an encrypted SSL tunnel, correct? You are __not__ talking about sftp, which is a part of SSH.

I don't know either, but I've had other forums give incorrect informtion due to confusion about these two very different forms of file transfer, both called "ftp".

Also, from my limited understanding, if you can get an SSL tunnel from point "a" to point "b", you can then do normal ftp over that SSL tunnel. So it may be sufficient to get two things: an SSL library and an ftp library and just use them together.

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