Python FTP implicit TLS connection issue

Question

I have a need to connect to FTPS server to which I am able to connect successfully using lftp. However, when I try with Python ftplib.FTP_TLS, it times out, the stack trace shows that it is waiting for the server to send welcome message or like. Does anyone know what the issue is and how to overcome? I wonder if there is something needs to be done on server side, but how come lftp client is working fine. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Here is the stack trace:

    ftp = ftplib.FTP_TLS()  
    ftp.connect(cfg.HOST, cfg.PORT, timeout=60)
  File "C:\Users\username\Softwares\Python27\lib\ftplib.py", line 135, in connect  
    self.welcome = self.getresp()  
  File "C:\Users\username\Softwares\Python27\lib\ftplib.py", line 210, in getresp  
    resp = self.getmultiline()  
  File "C:\Users\username\Softwares\Python27\lib\ftplib.py", line 196, in getmultiline  
    line = self.getline()  
  File "C:\Users\username\Softwares\Python27\lib\ftplib.py", line 183, in getline  
    line = self.file.readline()  
  File "C:\Users\username\Softwares\Python27\lib\socket.py", line 447, in readline  
    data = self._sock.recv(self._rbufsize)  
socket.timeout: timed out  

A successful login using lftp to the same ftps server:

$ lftp
lftp :~> open ftps://ip_address:990
lftp ip_address:~> set ftps:initial-prot P
lftp ip_address:~> login ftps_user_id  ftps_user_passwd
lftp sftp_user_id@ip_address:~> ls
ls: Fatal error: SSL_connect: self signed certificate
lftp ftps_user_id@ip_address:~> set ssl:verif-certificate off
lftp ftps_user_id@ip_address:~> ls
lftp ftps_user_id@ip_address:/>

BTW, I am using Python 2.7.3. I did quite a bit of search using Google but have not found anything helpful.

I am still having this issue, appreciate if someone can help. On looking closely the FTP.connect() the connection to server is not a problem but getting acknowledgement (or the welcome message) from server is an issue. lftp does not have this issue and FileZilla does not have any issue either as in the log here -

Status: Connecting to xx.xx.xx.xxx:990...  
Status: Connection established, initializing TLS...  
Status: Verifying certificate...  
Status: TLS/SSL connection established, waiting for welcome message...  
Response:   220-      Vous allez vous connecter sur un serveur prive  
Response:   220-     Seules les personnes habilitees y sont autorisees  
Response:   220 Les contrevenants s'exposent aux poursuites prevues par la loi.  
Command:    USER xxxxxxxxxxxxx  
Response:   331 Password required for xxxxxxxxxxxxx.  
Command:    PASS **********  
Response:   230 Login OK. Proceed.  
Command:    PBSZ 0  
Response:   200 PBSZ Command OK. Protection buffer size set to 0.  
Command:    PROT P  
Response:   200 PROT Command OK. Using Private data connection  
Status: Connected  
Status: Retrieving directory listing...  
Command:    PWD  
Response:   257 "/" is current folder.  
Command:    TYPE I  
Response:   200 Type set to I.  
Command:    PASV  
Response:   227 Entering Passive Mode (81,93,20,199,4,206).  
Command:    MLSD  
Response:   150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for MLSD /.  
Response:   226 Transfer complete. 0 bytes transferred. 0 bps.  
Status: Directory listing successful  

Answer 1

Extending the solutions that have been proposed so far, the issue is that implicit FTPS connections need the socket to be ssl wrapped automatically, before we get a chance to call login(). A lot of the subclasses that people are proposing do this in the context of the connect method, we can more generally manage this by modifying the get/set of self.sock with a property to auto-wrap on set:

import ftplib
import ssl

class ImplicitFTP_TLS(ftplib.FTP_TLS):
    """FTP_TLS subclass that automatically wraps sockets in SSL to support implicit FTPS."""

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self._sock = None

    @property
    def sock(self):
        """Return the socket."""
        return self._sock

    @sock.setter
    def sock(self, value):
        """When modifying the socket, ensure that it is ssl wrapped."""
        if value is not None and not isinstance(value, ssl.SSLSocket):
            value = self.context.wrap_socket(value)
        self._sock = value

Usage is essentially the same as with the standard FTP_TLS class:

ftp_client = ImplicitFTP_TLS()
ftp_client.connect(host='ftp.example.com', port=990)
ftp_client.login(user='USERNAME', passwd='PASSWORD')
ftp_client.prot_p()