RE: secure ftp client (was Forum Rules)

["Gary L Peskin" <garyp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry I missed your earlier post.  I think I saw it and meant to do
something about it and then got sidetracked.  I don't know if you want to
pay for something or not.  There is a product that I think will meet your
needs:

http://www.enterprisedt.com/products/edtftpjssl/overview.html

It is not free but there does seem to be a free trial download.  There is
also a free version that does not include the secure FTP piece:

http://www.enterprisedt.com/products/edtftpj/overview.html

However, edt-ftpj does include source code that you could modify.  There are
other open source clients as well but I don't think that any of them support
secure FTP out of the box:

http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/net/
http://finj.sourceforge.net/
http://www.enterprisedt.com/downloads/ftp.html (open source but not free)
http://j-ftp.sourceforge.net/

There's also:
http://www.radinks.com/sftp/source.php (which is not free but does do secure
file transfer)

I'm not sure if you're using this for internal use or want to build a
product and include this in it.  If you're not just using it for internal
use, you'll need to pay attention to the various licenses involved.

If none of the above suits your fancy and you're not on some emergency
deadline, I'd be happy to work with you in possibly enhancing the jakarta
client to support secure FTP and making those enhancements available to the
jakarta commons folks.  Then, everyone would have something available to
them.

Feel free to contact me off list if you'd like or we could keep the
discussion here as you prefer.

Gary
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James H H Lampert
> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 2:36 PM
> To: java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Forum Rules (was Class Declaration)
> 
> . . .
> 
> Speaking of FTP, to repeat (and rephrase) a question that got 
> me nothing useful before, does anybody know (and care to 
> share knowledge of) how to write a client for the OS/400 
> secured FTP server? (And NO, SSH file transfer doesn't have 
> anything to do with Secured FTP, any more than SSH terminal 
> mode has anything to do with Secured TN5250! If anything, 
> Secured and SSH FTP have even less to do with each other than 
> Secured and SSH
> Telnet!)