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  3. March 2006

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



In the iSeries world using HTTPAPI you connect and the certificate is
verified, they send you some redirects, you post your stream file, and
that's that.  Exit points capture the cookie that they send to you and
handle sending it back on subsequent  communications.  Getting the cookie
may be the point of the browser log-in process.
The latest HTTPAPI (which I just released yesterday, and haven't even announced yet) has support for cookies, so you no longer need to muck with exit points... just do: 

http_use_cookies(*ON);
and HTTPAPI will automatically handle cookies and send them back when appropriate. 



I'm not sure why they would require a password with ftp if you were using
certificates but it may just be a universal connection point for them but
not get used if you've got a certificate.
Because client-side certificates are an optional and infrequently used feature of SSL. I'd say less than 5% of people using SSL use client-side certificates in HTTP. In FTP, that percentage would be much lower.
Without the client-side certificates, how you do communicate user information? The answer is: you type a userid & password.

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