FTP with SSL/TLS

[Mark Smith]

On 22 Aug 2006, at 21:41, Dave Cragg wrote:

>
>
> FTP over SSL/TLS is different from SFTP (FTP over SSH), I believe.  
> It's a while since I looked at this, but I think FTP over SSL/TLS  
> would probably be easier to implement. However, I think the engine  
> still needs a way to negotiate a secure connection (secure  
> handshake??) over an existing non-secure connection before this  
> could be implemented in libUrl. On the other hand, SFTP seems to be  
> more widely supported by servers.
>
> Does anyone know if curl can be used for this?
>
> Cheers
> Dave
> _______________________________________________

 From the curl manual:

FTPS

    It is just like for FTP, but you may also want to specify and use
    SSL-specific options for certificates etc.


So I guess it can.

Best,

Mark