On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Behnam Rashidian wrote:

> I am just not clear on the purpose of CURLOPT_FTP_SSL option here. Is that
> used for FTPS protocol

Correct.

> and does it encrypt both the data and the control session or only the
> control session?

Either way, as you set the option.

> how is that different than SFTP over SSH.

SFTP is a completely different protocol. They both transfer files and they are
both encrypted, but otherwise I don't think they share a lot.

libcurl does not support SFTP (yet).

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