I was hoping that somebody here might know of an interface/package or similar which allows FTP via an NTLM proxy service.

At work they use a proxy service which uses NTLM authentication for HTTP and FTP. Part of one of the web based apps we are developing is Coldfusion based and we need to FTP files to an external FTP. This means we have to go through the proxy and authenticate. Unfortunately NTLM is proprietry and so is not implemented in Java for FTP (it is there for HTTP though). As such Coldfusion doesn't support it.

I'm looking for something that I can use to FTP using this method of authentication. I can do it manually or through an FTP package but I want to automate the process for the end user. I can make use of a .NET package or similar if one exists by creating it as a cfobject but I've not come across anything that looks helpful and would prefer not to have to write my own as I have too many other things to be doing.

Any help would be great, if you need more info about what I'm going on about let me know :)


PS. Not going through the proxy is not an option.

I'm guessing either nobody had any ideas, nobody read the thread, ran into the same problems I did or people couldn't be bothered ;)

It's ok though. I was being a bit of a tool and looking for a complex solution to a simple problem.

I'm just going to stick the FTP procedure into a batch file (or maybe an exe depending on what level of validation I need to do) and then use the <cfexecute> tag to execute the code. I can easily handle NTLM authentication this way and it's pretty straight forward to do.

No need to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut.