Authenticate against a webservice

Question

Hi all,

I was hoping to find an FTP server that will allow me to write the authentication code/script. I've spent some time reading the documentation of CompleteFTP and I don't believe it can do what I'm after.

I've seen this dialog: http://www.enterprisedt.com/images/cftp-ss-extuser.png . Which allows me to authenticate against a database. But I was hoping to write some code to trip off to a webservice that already exists in my corporate environment.

Other options-- write a LDAP provider for the existing webserivce. Hmmmm.

Thanks,
Russ

Answer 1

If you can put an OLE DB adapter in front of your webservice then yes it can be done with the current version. Obviously that's a bit clumsy though, and I'm not sure how hard it would be to code.

I'm not sure how we could support webservices directly for authentication.

Answer 2

Bruce was commenting on what is currently available in CompleteFTP; I'll comment on future features.

We are currently in the process of opening up CompleteFTP's existing plug-in architecture to allow users to add their own plug-ins. Currently we have plug-ins for file-systems, events and site commands. We don't yet have the ability for users to provide their own authentication plug-ins, but this is something we are planning to add. Plug-ins must be .NET assemblies meaning they can be written in C#, VB.NET or any other .NET language. Is this something you would be interested in? If so, how soon do you need it?

- Hans (EnterpriseDT)