On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Wei Weng wrote:

> I set up a local windows computer with servU server with FTPS support. And
> did a quick curl ftps://192.168.1.227/cache.log, trying to retrieve the file
> cache.log. But I get an error message:
>
> curl (7): couldn't connect to host.

Using 'ftps://' URLs will make curl attempt to connect to port 990.

> However, I can retrieve the file with curl ftp://192.168.1.227/cache.log (so
> the server is there).

Yes, but clearly listening on port 21, so --ftp-ssl is probably what you're
looking for.

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