FTPES - FTP over explicit TLS/SSL in Python

Question

I need a python client to do FTPES (explicit), does anyone has experience with any python package that can do this.

I am not able to do this in python, but can connect to FTP server using tools like FileZilla

Thanks

Answer 1

FTP-SSL Explicit is well supported by native Python. After setting up the connection, you can use all the standard ftplib commands. More can be found at: http://docs.python.org/2/library/ftplib.html#ftplib.FTP_TLS

Here's a basic example for downloading a file:

from ftplib import FTP_TLS
ftps = FTP_TLS('ftp.MySite.com')
ftps.login('testuser', 'testpass')           # login anonymously before securing control channel
ftps.prot_p()          # switch to secure data connection.. IMPORTANT! Otherwise, only the user and password is encrypted and not all the file data.
ftps.retrlines('LIST')

filename = 'remote_filename.bin'
print 'Opening local file ' + filename
myfile = open(filename, 'wb')

ftps.retrbinary('RETR %s' % filename, myfile.write)

ftps.close()