lftp or other methods to connect to ftps://

[Muscovy]

I recently made a script to automatically download a directory from my webserver using ftps (required by hosting company). It seems policy has changed again or something, because trying to download files gets the following error:

mirror: Access failed: 521 Data connection cannot be opened with this PROT setting.

I can access the files just fine with Filezilla, but not lftp. I didn't change the code, but here it as anyway:

lftp -f ~/the/file/below

open -u USERNAME,PASSWORD DOMAIN
lcd /local/place/to/put/files
mirror
quit

I tried manually, login works fine, but nothing can be done after that. Help is appreciated, until this works again I've broken a backup system of mine.

[scorp123]

Are you sure you're really using FTPS with FileZilla and not SFTP?

[Muscovy]

I tried using sftp from the terminal, and it failed. When they said sftp was also usable, I assume it's for those who have purchased ssh access or something.

[scorp123]

I assume it's for those who have purchased ssh access or something.

I'd definitely recommend that, to be honest. FTPS is just a horrible non-standard rig where SSL got glued on top of good ol' unsafe and outdated FTP. SFTP however is a standard sub-protocol of SSH and it just works. So if there is a way you can get SSH access I'd recommend you try that.

[Muscovy]

I'm not too worried about security. None of the files are secret, it's just the fastest way to download all of them (I don't fancy making a wget bot ). I looked up the lftp error, and discovered:

"LIST will return '521 data connection cannot be opened with this PROT setting' when a client tries to list the content of a secured folder over a clear data connection."

[scorp123]

it's just the fastest way to download all of them (I don't fancy making a wget bot

Never heard of rsync? Works tip top.

rsync -av --progress ssh-login@remote-location:/remote/files/* /path/to/local/destination/

[Muscovy]

I got this working by adding the following in the instructions file:

set ftp:ssl-force true
set ftp:ssl-protect-data true