While this should work with most clients, there is still a need to just secure authentication process (especially the user name and password). Once the authentication is finished, a client might want to switch back to plain old FTP if there is no confidential data. So having an option or two on the listeners might not be a bad idea.
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Dave Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14/09/2010 16:37, John Hartnup wrote: >> The implication, then, is that this is a niche behaviour that would be best >> implemented in an ftplet, and not something that be available all the time, >> to be configured in the <listener> element? > > Given that you want to impose the use of SSL, can you not make use > of the implicit SSL option on a single listener instance? As far as > I know, most clients that support SSL, support both implicit and > explicit modes. >
