Re^2: why Perl is good, it works

I think the banks are behind it all. It seems from my googling research that they are making it difficult to get a good ftps application. There is also sudenly a plethora of "pay-for" apps which know the secret of fixing the libs so they work together right.

It almost seems as if someone dosn't want us using ftps, and is making the software work in plain text, but also making it hard to get encryption working.

Even today, as I install Gnu TLS to try and my lftp to connect, I ran into roadblock after roadblock.

First, GnuTLS needed libnettles( not the most recent, but an older version), and libgmp. Iibgmp's source code is packed with lzip, so you need to get lzip installed.

So I get it all installed, lftp is built with TLS and the connection gets a bit further, but crashes with an error about an unrecognized packet received.

So, I'm still stuck with Perl's Net::FTPSSL as my only working solution. That is so impressive to me, I've decided to write my own Tk gui front end, and make a Net::FTPSSL a more interactive session.

It would be simple, a text widget for the output of the l* commands( for your local cwd ) and a second, to show the remote commands

A simple entry box will take commands and send them out, and a help page of the perldoc for Net::FTPSSL would be a handy command reference.

But it's a 100 here today, and my attitude is manana, ;-)

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth.
Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh

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Re^3: why Perl is good, it works by bcarroll (Pilgrim) on Jul 03, 2014 at 05:17 UTC
Are you going to make your Tk front end for Net::FTPSSL available on CPAN or in the Cool Uses For Perl Node? That would be awesome!	[reply]
Re^4: why Perl is good, it works by zentara (Archbishop) on Jul 03, 2014 at 08:34 UTC
Probably CUFP first, then maybe make it a module. But if it works as a monolithic script, why encapsulate it? As to the question of whether Openssl supports Gnu TLS, does that mean that I have to have TLS installed when compiling OpenSSL? I have a good working Openssl v 1h built, but I didn't have TLS installed when compiling. So once again, now I need to recompile OpenSSL with TLS enabled? Just to get my c based ftps programs working? Ahem, ahem... sems like a conspiracy to get people to just not use ftps.... now who could that be? Perl just does it right, and all I needed was a simple install of Net::FTPSSL. This all reminds me of that story posted a few days ago, about the soldier who won a medal, for using Perl to get things working in his operations. Nothing worked, but Perl did. :-) I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh	[reply]
Re^3: why Perl is good, it works by LanX (Saint) on Jul 02, 2014 at 21:17 UTC
I see ... o_O So I'll a apply as a clerk without any computer know how. Cheers Rolf (addicted to the Perl Programming Language)	[reply]
Re^3: why Perl is good, it works by Anonymous Monk on Jul 02, 2014 at 22:18 UTC
Oi! What version of slackware are you running? Slackware-14.1 comes with libnettle, libgmp. xz too. OpenSSL ought to support TLS. And you could also try curl.	[reply]
Re^4: why Perl is good, it works by bcarroll (Pilgrim) on Jul 03, 2014 at 05:27 UTC
OpenSSL ought to support TLS OpenSSL has supported TLS since at least version 0.9.8f (2007)	[reply]


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