Re: Net::FTP versus TLS

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 04:57:36PM +0200, Dariush Pietrzak wrote:
> Hello,
>  I'm trying to contact TLS-enabled ftp servers, and so far the only option
> seems to be using lftp. 
> AFAIK those extensions are described in RFC 2228...
> but by looking at it... it seems it would be enough to detect when user
> issues 'AUTH TLS', and then switch the connection to tls, using
> IO::Socket::SSL this could be simple...
>  What are my options here? 

Sadly its not that simple. I am working on a new libnet that will allow
this but it is nowhere near ready yet. Until then your best option
is using lftp

Graham.