[3168] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Are file transfers dine in SSL????
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary F. Ellison)
Wed Oct 9 12:24:10 1996
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 09:42:13 -0400
From: "Gary F. Ellison" <gary.f.ellison@att.com>
To: angeliro@pde.paramount.com
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <325B1D7A.584F@pde.paramount.com>
Reply-To: gary.f.ellison@att.com
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Angelino <angeliro@pde.paramount.com> writes:
Robert> Hi all. How does SSL deal with ftping files to from a client
Robert> and server??? Does the server/client initiate a secure socket
Robert> for data trasnfer???
It does not. Once you leave the https://... protocol for ftp://... you
are noulonger using SSL. If you want your file transfers to be secure
I suggest you let the https daemon act as your file transfer agent.
Robert> -robert
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