Re: FTP SSL: Don't want user id / password prompt.

midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 03/22/2006 03:55:18 PM:

> Ok, we've got ftp working to Wells Fargo.  And it is using SSL. 
According 
> to them it should stop asking for user id and password.  According to 
IBM, 
> they're nuts, besides it's their server that stops and asks for the user 

> id and password.
> 
> So, do we go the http api route that others do, or, is there some way, 
on 
> our end, to tell ftp to not ask for a user id and password?

It sounds like Wells Fargo is saying they support authentication via 
client certificate, hence no need for username and password.  I did not 
think FTP supported client certificates, but it might.  This is 
technically not the same as SSL, although it would usually only be used 
via a connection that was secured with SSL.

So it sounds like you have the securing of the connection via SSL working, 
but either Wells Fargo is wrong to think that FTP supports authenticating 
via client certs or your FTP client just does not support that.

HTTP certainly supports client certificates, but you would have to code 
for it.

Mark



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