Bryon,

This may not help depending on what you are looking to do, but http 
directory listinigs are almost indentical to ftp directory listings in 
your browser and I think that http is faster moving through the 
directories as well.  

There is a new apache module that can be installed to allow externel 
authentication through appache (see link below) for directory access and 
it could be setup to authinticate to externel databases or your system 
accounts.  

http://www.unixpapa.com/mod_auth_external.html

So you could change the ftp site to a http site running mod_ssl and the 
mod_auth_externel so that you could setup software/information 
repositories with varying account permisions required and the clients 
could attach over https.

David




Bryon Gloden wrote:

>Guess I should I have asked if there are any windoze web browsers
>that support FTP AUTH SSL.  If not, I'm still interested in know how
>hard it would be to write a plugin that could do this type of
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>Your browser does not implement FTP AUTH SSL.
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>Use an FTP client that does such as C-Kermit 8.0
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