SSL File Transfer

[Bill Akers]

lists at harris-home.com wrote:
> Ok let me clarify. I'm not expecting anything magical here. Just a file
> transfer. ;)
> 
> The SSL server that I am transfering to is a bank server (outside of my
> control). By default they would prefer to accept the transfer via HTTPS
> and their CGI script. I was hoping for a way to script a POST operation to
> get the file there.
> 
> I'm going to have to jump through some hoops to get the Secure FTP or SSH
> to work for me on their end. I'd rather avoid this if I can find a simple
> way to POST the file via HTTPS.

We have been transferring files to a bank's secure server using ftp 
from SCO 5.0 for quite a while. We do not have a problem and we send 
an encrypted file which our bank prefers to receive. Granted there is 
some setup required and things like password keys to exchange but all 
of that is fairly easy to set up and administer.
I believe that the secure ftp method is much preferable. If you would 
like to discuss the procedures we use contact me off-list to arrange 
for phone contact.

> 
> I tried WGET and realized that they call it GET for a reason. If there is
> such a thing as WPUT that will run secure on SCO that might solve my
> problem.
> 
> The RawQuery seems to be a possibility but the specifics of how it's going
> to work seem vague. I'll have to look into this.
> 
> One option that I found seemed to point to OpenSSL and Kermit as a
> solution but I have never had any luck compiling stuff on a SCO system. It
> just never seems to work for me.
> 
> Anybody else have any bright ideas?
> 
> Kevin Harris
> kharris at pro-set.com
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