FTP and Tomcat

["Shah, Sanjay" <Sa...@tfn.com>]

Craig,

Thanks. What do you mean by standard FTP server?  Is that a separate from
Tomcat?
If so, which FTP server did you use?  Is it possible to integrate that ftp
server to tomcat?
I am trying to give secure ftp access to clients after their authentication.
And I am trying to use tomcat as Request handler server providing
authentication.

Thanks
  

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:craigmcc@apache.org]
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 1:45 PM
To: Shah, Sanjay
Cc: 'Tomcat Users List'
Subject: RE: HTTPS to HTTP


On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Shah, Sanjay wrote:

> Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 13:02:32 -0500
> From: "Shah, Sanjay" <Sa...@tfn.com>
> To: 'Tomcat Users List' <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Cc: 'Craig R. McClanahan' <cr...@apache.org>
> Subject: RE: HTTPS to HTTP
>
>
> Hello Craig:
>
> I was reading one of your post in tomcat user archive regarding
> implementation of FTP protocol under Catalina.
> One of my requirement is exactly the same.
>
> In my case the FTP security and processing needs to be managed on a per
> customer basis, however this tends to be closely coupled to the web-app
> side. Infect my FTP processing would re-use underlying classes contained
in
> the client's existing web-app. Hence I would prefer to have a logical
> mapping between host<->customer. Your mapping approach seems like the way
to
> go.
>
> Could you please let me know if you were successful in your effort and if
> so, can you give me some details about settings FtpConnector, FtpRequest,
> FtpResponse etc.?
>
> Your response is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>

I never went any further than a thought experiment to see if it could be
done.  It also became a much less interesting problem when I remembered
that I could just set up a standard FTP server pointed at the same
directories, giving me FTP access to the files with zero effort modifying
Tomcat.

Craig


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Re: FTP and Tomcat

["Craig R. McClanahan" <cr...@apache.org>]

On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Shah, Sanjay wrote:

> Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 13:52:55 -0500
> From: "Shah, Sanjay" <Sa...@tfn.com>
> To: 'Craig R. McClanahan' <cr...@apache.org>
> Cc: 'Tomcat Users List' <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Subject: FTP and Tomcat
>
> Craig,
>
> Thanks. What do you mean by standard FTP server?  Is that a separate from
> Tomcat?
> If so, which FTP server did you use?

I've used several -- including WU-FTPD that Red Hat documents.  Solaris
comes with one as well.

>  Is it possible to integrate that ftp
> server to tomcat?
> I am trying to give secure ftp access to clients after their authentication.
> And I am trying to use tomcat as Request handler server providing
> authentication.

I don't know of any standard TCP client apps that will support
authenticating across HTTP and transferring files over FTP, so it's not
clear to me that such an animal would be useful even if it did exist.
Also, if you're just downloading files, why not just let them download the
files via HTTP already since they are already interacting with you that
way?

It wouldn't be terribly difficult to make the same usernames and passwords
work for both -- find an FTP server that lets you plug in an
authentication module (some of them use PAM for that sort of thing), and
configure the plugin so that it looks at the same database or whatever
that you point Tomcat at.

Craig



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RE: FTP and Tomcat

["Noel J. Bergman" <no...@devtech.com>]

If the purpose for the FTP server is to allow remote admin of the contents
of the web apps, I suggest that you consider using WebDAV.  Tomcat has
WebDAV support, although I prefer to use mod_dav instead.

	--- Noel


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