Integrating with GXS FTP Service

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(See Also: Using LFTP to connect to GXS)

If you're reading these notes you probably are having problems establishing a FTPS connection to IBM's gxs.com .

The solution involves lftp .

~/.lftprc

set cmd:trace yes
set cmd:verbose yes
set ftps:initial-prot P
set ftp:ssl-allow yes
set ftp:passive-mode yes
set ftp:ssl-protect-list yes
set ftp:ssl-allow-anonymous no
set ftp:ssl-allow on
set ssl:verify-certificate off
set ftp:ssl-protect-data on
set ftp:use-feat off

debug 12

lftp connection

lftp -p YOUR_FTP_PORT -d -u FTP_USER,FTP_PASSWD ftps://FTP_HOST_NAME

lftp put

put "YOUR_LOCAL_FILENAME" -o  %YOUR_LOCAL_FILENAME%MUMBO%JUMBO%%X

lftp get

 get  %DOCUMENTED%STRINGS -o output_file_20071231.txt