Re: [Ftpsync] Starting work on FTPS support

[Christoph Lechleitner]

Am 2013-01-22 19:37, schrieb Christoph Lechleitner:
> Hi there!
> 
> I should have reasonable time during the upcoming days and weeks, so
> I'll start tonight.

To quote George Takei AKA Lt. Sulu:
Oh my ...

My first CPAN search for a SSL capable variant of Net::FTP brought up
Net::FTPSSL right away, and I hoped it'd offer a straight-forward
solution to add SSL support to ftpsync.

Unfortunately it has some disadvantages, it:
- seems to have stopped maturing in 2005,
- can be difficult to install,
- produces weird warning messages when used by an application,
- has an API that is slightly but inconveniently different from Net::FTP's.

I did not dare forcing Net::FTPSSL into the main script (ftpsync,
fromerly ftpsync.pl), but split away a separate script: ftpsync-ssl

These cirumstances are already documented in the ReadMe,
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/ftpsync.git/tree/doc/ReadMe.txt

I have successfully used the current ftpsync-ssl with a pure-ftpd
installation, but it failed to work towards a vsftpd.

It'd be nice if somebody else besides me could play around with ftpsync-ssl.

But, technically, we might have reached RMS' wishes ;-)

Regards, Christoph