Filepro-list Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2010, Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
>John,
>
>Depending on the direction you're going wget can work great or is 
>difficult to make work at all.  Wget is usually fine for downloading, 
>but doesn't work with secure FTP (FTPS) if you have to pass commands.  
>(I sometimes have to delete a file I just downoaded from a customers' 
>mailbox.)  It is even more difficult to upload information to a secure 
>FTP.  For that I use cURL.  I got a system working with cURL that my 
>customer's tech didn't think was possible with a Windows-based command 
>line program.

If one needs secure ftp, sftp is good and it's a normal part of
the openssh package.  It works nicely with FileZilla as well.

Bill
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