Automating FTPS Transfer

It’s external to internal- we’re retrieving files from a vendor who does some outsourced data cleansing for us. Believe me, if this were internal to internal or internal to external, I wouldn’t be jammed up like this with FTPS.

The vendor will not allow any transfer protocol beside FTPS- why, I honestly can’t answer. I’ve tried to get them to use SFTP (like the rest of the world), I’ve tried to get them to let us create a VPN tunnel…but they insist on FTPS. They won’t give us port 22, won’t give us VPN, ect.

I’m going to try a new FTPS package tommorow morning (“MoveITFreely”). I captured a bunch of packets while my transfer attempts were erroring out and it looks like the FTPS package I was using doesn’t support passive mode FTP with SSLv3, which was causing my issues. The new package does. I’ll report back with my results.