FTPS Server?

[Karl Denninger]

On 1/5/2012 9:32 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 05/01/2012 14:09, Karl Denninger wrote:
>> So if I want to do anything other than transfer to a Windows machine
>> (barf!) I am stuck with either FTP (no encryption at all and subject to
>> be picked off via trivial means while the data is in flight) or FTPS
>> (which has its own set of issues.)
> Does your card support uploading by HTTP(S) POST?  You'll need to cook
> up a small webapp to process the input, but that shouldn't be any big
> deal if you can snoop on the card doing that and extract parameter values.
>
> Or, more obscurely, does that card support HTTP PUT?  Not very many
> people realise that uploading data is supported in HTTP, and
> consequently it is quite rarely used.  For apache, you need to use a
> <LIMIT> statement to enable the PUT command, and obviously, you'll need
> some sort of access control eg. HTTP Basic Auth so users have to provide
> passwords.
>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew
No; unfortunately the only "open standards" methods supported are FTP or
"Secure" FTP (Ftps)

The proprietary stuff "works" but I want to have a Windows machine
powered up all the time to get the transmissions (even though I can have
it mount a Samba share and thus write them to the same place on the
server in question) like a want a hole in the head.

-- Karl