Thoughts on working with FTPS

Thoughts on working with FTPS so with the java FTPS library, it is not easy to get FTPS up and running. a few hitches are: you may not have set a passive connection, this means that you are the one who picks the port over which the data transfer will happen, and not the server (hence “active”) if you goto passive mode via enterLocalPassiveMode, then the server will select a port for you. this is advised since it means you get to keep a tight lock on the total open ports on the server. ...

2 min · Yashodhan Ghadge