Re: Using PuTTY/Plink port forwarding to run ftp client on Windows

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_comcast.net)
Date: 03/28/04

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    Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:58:05 -0500

    "Darren Tucker" <dtucker@dodgy.net.au> wrote in message
    news:c43llj$toh$1@gate.dodgy.net.au...
    > In article <zYE*A1rgq@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
    > Jacob Nevins <jacobn@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
    > >SSH port forwarding of FTP requires special support from the SSH
    > >client, and PuTTY doesn't have that support, and isn't likely to gain
    > >it soon, I'm afraid.
    >
    > In theory, however, a socksified FTP client would work with PuTTY's
    > Dynamic forwarding (OpenSSH's too for that matter) *if* you use passive
    > mode. (This requires that both FTP client and server support it).

    Would using WebDAV over HTTPS work for you? SSL tunneling is *vastly*
    simpler than tunneling, and SSL tunneling is often more trivial to set up.

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