Ah, yes, further proof that I am still learning.

The client requests SSL FTP, not "Secure FTP". I was unaware that there was any true difference in the two. In fact, the little documentation the client offers me refers to RFC 2246, which you discussed. I'm currently scanning that now.

Let me clear the air a little...I work for a Health Care billing agency, and, as anyone near the industry knows, we have new federal privacy/security standard we need to implement...aka HIPAA.

HIPAA requires 128bit encryption for all electronic transfers. The client interpertes that to be SSL transfers, so that's what I have to run with.

Hopefully, I'm not the only Perl programmer here in Health Care, and someone can share their knowledge/horror stories of how they are trying to support this stuff.

I guess the question should now read: "I need a way to do FTP transfers over SSL and automate the process." I know there are other GUI clients that you can sort-of-script that can do this (WS-FTP), but we really need something with more flexability that we can control (like Perl). Any help out there, or do I have to goto low-level socket programming?

Thanks,
rusacarr

In reply to Re: Re: ActivePerl - Secure FTP - Net::SFTP? by rusacarr
in thread ActivePerl - Secure FTP - Net::SFTP? by rusacarr

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