On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Sachin Sisodia wrote:

> I have some queries on FTPS :
>
> 1. Is there any way where we can encrypt data session through Curl.

Yes, with FTPS!

> 2. Is curl support control session encryption by default?

Yes.

> 3. As our client is interacting through FTPS so control session is always
> encrypted (Please correct me if I am wrong). How can we test the same
> through curl command.

--ftp-ssl

> 4. But some of clients are sending either encrypted file or un-encrypted
> files. So for those clients who are not sending encrypted data to our
> environment, we have to encrypt data session. How to do this?

--ftp-ssl

> 5. Can we use data session encryption for every client irrespective of
> whether they are sending encrypted or un-encrypted files?

Yes

> is there any cons for the same.

Well, you encrypt stuff an extra time when in fact it isn't needed. You waste
CPU time/resources. But on the other hand, it is probably much more
complicated to not do it for those cases.

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