I think the banks are behind it all. It seems from my googling research that they are making it difficult to get a good ftps application. There is also sudenly a plethora of "pay-for" apps which know the secret of fixing the libs so they work together right.

It almost seems as if someone dosn't want us using ftps, and is making the software work in plain text, but also making it hard to get encryption working.

Even today, as I install Gnu TLS to try and my lftp to connect, I ran into roadblock after roadblock.

First, GnuTLS needed libnettles( not the most recent, but an older version), and libgmp. Iibgmp's source code is packed with lzip, so you need to get lzip installed.

So I get it all installed, lftp is built with TLS and the connection gets a bit further, but crashes with an error about an unrecognized packet received.

So, I'm still stuck with Perl's Net::FTPSSL as my only working solution. That is so impressive to me, I've decided to write my own Tk gui front end, and make a Net::FTPSSL a more interactive session.

It would be simple, a text widget for the output of the l* commands( for your local cwd ) and a second, to show the remote commands

A simple entry box will take commands and send them out, and a help page of the perldoc for Net::FTPSSL would be a handy command reference.

But it's a 100 here today, and my attitude is manana, ;-)

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth.
Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh

In reply to Re^2: why Perl is good, it works by zentara
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