Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > Thinking back about this, I wonder whether "FTPS" could be a better name to > use instead of "FTP_TLS". > It's shorter, easier to remember, and also makes more sense since also SSL > can be used, not only TLS.
What do you mean by "also SSL can be used"? Wikipedia has an interesting article about the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTPS Secured FTP with explicit negotiation (what we are doing) is sometimes called "FTPES" (that's how it's named in FileZilla indeed). "FTPS" is more often used to describe secured FTP with implicit negotiation, i.e. the SSL session is established before the FTP protocol even kicks in. I think FTP_TLS is a fine name. Perhaps we can simply make the above distinction clearer in the docs. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2054> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
