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Re: vms and ssl and ftps

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 23:21:34 +0100 (CET)

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Tim McDaniels wrote:

> curl --sslv2 --verbose ftps://10.10.1.8:3021/ --user xxxx
> password:
> * About to connect() to 10.10.1.8:3021
> * Connected to 10.10.1.8 (10.10.1.8) port 3021
> * libcurl is now using a weak random seed!
>
> I get the results shown and the program hangs. Note that I get the same
> result with and without a certificate. Note that I can access the above
> server without ssl if I change a server parameter. The ftp server I am
> testing with is WS-FTP Server v3.14, it supports ftps over SSL (I recognize
> the ftps is not a standard).

Right, FTPS is not a standard and the way curl does it is using SSL only for
the control connection, leaving the data plainly unencrypted.

> Is curl's ftps imcompatible with WS-FTP Server using SSL and others (IBM
> Global Exchange Services)?

I think so. I'm off course welcoming all contributions that will make it work
better with these.

> Is it compliant with draft-murray-auth-ssl-10?

I'm not familiar with that draft, but I doubt that it is...

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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Received on 2003-02-19