[lug] Making an HTTPS tunnel to an FTP server

[George Sexton]

I'll be the lone dissenting voice. You're trying to secure a rotten
protocol. Why not just use SSH/SFTP? Pretty much an reasonably current FTP
client is going to support SSH.

George Sexton
MH Software, Inc.
303 438-9585
www.mhsoftware.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-
> bounces at lug.boulder.co.us] On Behalf Of Glenn Murray
> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 12:14 PM
> To: Linux User's Group Boulder
> Subject: [lug] Making an HTTPS tunnel to an FTP server
> 
> 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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