In article <5609c6f296a54b24a2b7a5cd319fbd46@xxxxxxxx> you write: >You noted that your scripts perform functions that you don't know how to do in "non-ftp ways". Can you >clarify that use case/function more (offline ok too)? In preparing the contingency plan, it appeared >that using an HTTP API or rsync covered the known use cases. I do all of my scripted downloads with wget or curl which I think is pretty typical. In those two programs, changing from ftp to https generally only involves changing ftp:// to https:// in the command arguments. I'd also be interested in hearing about what other FTP clients people are using that are hard to switch to https. R's, John