FTP via SOCKS server

[Anon]

I am writing a PHP-based web application that will ftp certain files to a server outside of my company's firewall. Unfortunately, I cannot get PHP to use our SOCKS server, and am currently calling an external expect script to perform the ftp. This seems rather crude, and I would love to be able to do everything internally in my script. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,
Will

[Anon]

Have you done any research on how the socks firewall protocol works? If you get that pegged, you can write your own ftp client (it's really easy in php - don't worry), and make that use the same procedure. I've not done this personally, but it's the sort of stuff php's made for 🙂

Dave