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 t

python ssl ftp ftplib ftps
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