FTP over TLS

[Paul Rubin]

Carl Waldbieser <waldbie at yahoo.com> writes:
> Does anyone know of any good examples for writing client side code
> to upload files over a secure FTP connection?  I am referring to
> FTPS, *not* SFTP, which I found out the hard way are two different
> things.  I am not really all that familiar with FTPS, but from what
> I understand, when the client sends the "AUTH" command, it can
> request a TLS connection from the server.

The standard is not yet finalized:
 ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4217.txt

> I wasn't sure how to do this in Python, and Googling around didn't really
> produce any useful Python-related results for me.

I don't know of any Python code that does it.  You could adapt the
existing Python ftp client to use one of the Python TLS packages.