On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Giampaolo Rodola' <
report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
Giampaolo Rodola' <billiejoex@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
> Another thing to look at is what the useful arguments are to pass in
> for TLS usage over FTP. If, for example, the client needs to validate
> the server's certificate or identity, provision should be made for a
> file of cacerts to be passed to the FTP_TLS instance. Passing in a
> keyfile and certfile is usually only necessary when the client uses
> them to identify itself to the server.
I drew from the SSL classes defined in httplib, imaplib, poplib, smtplib
and urllib modules which accept a keyfile and a certfile in the class
constructor so I thought it was the "right way". Is there a reason why
the FTP protocol should behave differently as you have described?