Daniel asked,
> Anyone out there that knows of any specifactions or similar of FTP through
> SSL? Or does anyone at least know of a public server that runs anywhere
> that utilizes it?

FTP picks its own ports for the data connections, rather than using the port
the command connection is established on. So no tunnelling protocol can
support FTP except IPSEC which is a kernel level protocol.

However, you can use rsync, with or without SSH or one of the SSL tunnelling
packages. SSH is quite widely used for tunnelling, and there are free
clients and servers for most platforms depending where you live.

Rsync is GNUware, available at the same place as samba:
http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync, if I remember rightly. Rsync will sync two
file hierarchies on the same or different machines. It uses a very cool
method for determining what has to be changed to sync them, without actually
copying the files. You can, of course, sync a single file if you want. If a
file or hierarchy doesn't exist on the target machine, it will create it
with all the proper permissions and so forth if you want.
Received on 2000-02-14