[lug] Making an HTTPS tunnel to an FTP server

[Dan Ferris]

OpenVPN is your friend in cases like this.

Dan

On 12/20/2011 12:13 PM, Glenn Murray wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if someone on this list had any experience with this
> problem.  I have a ProFTPD server running on port 21 behind a
> firewall.  I'm like to create an HTTPS tunnel through the firewall to
> ProFTPD so that users outside the firewall can connect to ProFTPD
> using the same ProFTPD credentials as inside the firewall.  I
> understand that another set of credentials is necessary to set up the
> tunnel.  The odd thing here is that (at this point) it has to be
> HTTPS, and not FTPS, SFTP, etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Glenn
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