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Re: interactive ftps session with curl

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:30:05 +0100 (CET)

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Edward Peschko wrote:

> I wanted to use curl to make an interactive ftp-ssl session.
>
> I have to connect to a site, do an 'ls' command, get a list of files, delete
> files, etc. etc. etc and was hoping to use curl (given that I can't find
> another ftps client)

The whole purpose of curl is to _not_ be an interactive tool! ;-)

> Or if not, is there a good, command line ftps tool that works on
> solaris,linux, and win32 and that supports interactive sessions?

Paul Ford-Hutchinson maintains a great FTPS resource page:

         http://www.ford-hutchinson.com/~fh-1-pfh/ftps-ext.html

It lists 40(!) available client implementations. I would suspect at least a
few will fulfill your requirements.

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Received on 2005-01-31