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Re: Automating US Bank Data Transfers
Not using FTPAPI, but SSL is a requirement for BoA ftp's. To use it,
we had to download their certificate to our 400, then it works good.
Hope this helps.
Jim Waymire
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Scott Klement <[1]sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi Mike,
Currently, FTPAPI does not support SSL at all. This is mainly
because I haven't had a use for it, myself.
As someone who understands the network protocol internals, I think
FTP over SSL is a kludge, and isn't especially secure. I would not
recommend it unless you're given no alternative.
Personally, I recommend using SFTP (SSH) instead.
The note from US Bank that you cite also seems to be referring to
SSH. (Though, I could be mistaken.) Typically, when you use SSL, you
work with X.509 certificates, whereas they are referring to
public/private keys. Granted, somewhere in the SSL certificate
architecture, they're probably using public/private keys -- but when
folks are referring to SSL, they don't usually use those terms.
Whereas with SSH, public/private keys are the norm... so it seems
likely that they are actually referring to SFTP (SSH).
Maybe that's food for thought.
But, if you are forced to use SSL/FTP, the IBM client does support
it (to an extent, anyway) and you could potentially add SSL support
to FTPAPI. Or, you could purchase a 3rd party tool, such as the
packages offered by Linoma (which look pretty nice to me...)
-SK
On 7/3/2012 2:10 PM, Mike Wills wrote:
I am looking at what it would take to automate downloading the
daily
transactions from US Bank's lock box service. In asking for more
details about downloading via FTPS (SSL) and how that is handled
at the
technical level so I can start planning what I need to do with
Scott's
FTPAPI, I get this:
"US Bank will not be supporting password authentication in the
near
future, so the best bet is to use Public Key sign on
authentication
when we auto connect for the push."
Does the API support that type of authentication? Has anyone
worked
with US Bank any type of automated transactions. What works
well?
--
Mike Wills
[1][2]http://mikewills.me
References
1. [3]http://mikewills.me/
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Jim Waymire
Gartman Systems
870-942-4213 x 228
References
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2. http://mikewills.me/
3. http://mikewills.me/
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