[Xitami] Talking about FTP

[Thomas J. Hruska]

At 08:53 AM 5/28/2002 -0700, Gunnar Swan writeth:
>Am I hearing you guys say that the client FTP can dictate the ports that
the server uses for FTP ?

The client can make suggestions to the server as to what mode to use.  It
all depends on the server implementation.  Try going to a DOS Prompt and
running straight FTP commands to Xitami.  Particularly, play with the PASV
command which toggles passive mode (if the server supports it).  For
transfers through a firewall you probably want it off.

>5/28/02 8:11:45 AM, Gunnar Swan <GunnarSwan@practicetopass.com> wrote:
>
>>Stefan,
>>
>>I took a look at this product. Close. The data is encrypted before being
sent.
>>(Clients that I have written are sending the data back to the server)
>>So I don't need the transmission itself encrypted. The data already is.
>>
>>What I was looking for is to limit the number of ports that Xitami talks on
>>when FTP so that I can assign these ports to Xitami.exe in the firewall.
>>
>>Someone said to use passive mode on the client. Does this limit the
>>number of ports Xitami uses ( or the client uses) so that I can secure 
>>these ports in the firewall ?
>>
>>Thanks for the responses.
>>
>>
>>5/27/02 9:52:53 PM, spantazi@uvic.ca wrote:
>>
>>>If you're concerned about FTP security here's something I've been 
>>>using for a while and seems to work fine.
>>>
>>>http://safetp.cs.berkeley.edu/

Hope this helps!


          Thomas J. Hruska -- shinelight@shininglightpro.com
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