ACCESSING THE FIRST HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION FTP SITE

As of: Kermit 95 2.1.3, C-Kermit 8.0.209
This File Last Updated: Tue Oct 28 13:52:48 2003

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First Health Services Corporation is provider for many state Medicare programs, including Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia. First Health requires FTP connections to be secured by SSL (TLS). Connections are to host secureftp.fhsc.com on TCP port 21000 and should be in passive mode. The page describes how to set up connections to First Health from the Kermit FTP client: Kermit 95 for Windows or OS/2, or C-Kermit for Unix (Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, HP-UX, AIX, Tru64, SCO, etc).

As of 25 October 2003:   First Health uses Ipswitch's WS-FTPD FTP server with the example X.509 certificate. This results in warnings if the certificate is validated because there is no proper hostname or IP address in the certificate to validate; thus the "set auth tls verify no" command is required until and unless First Health installs a valid X.509 certificate.

Use the following commands to access the First Health. In addition, if your FTP client is behind a firewall, you will also need to configure your firewall to allow outbound sessions to be established on TCP ports 21001-21100 for the dynamic FTP data channel.

set auth tls verbose off    ; Or "on" for debugging
set auth tls debug off      ; ditto
set ftp debug off           ; ditto
set ftp verbose on          ; Of "off" for silent(er) running

set ftp dates on            ; Setting file dates works
set ftp filenames literal   ; Don't convert filenames
set auth tls verify no      ; Because of faulty host certificate

set ftp autologin on
set ftp passive on
set ftp autoauthentication on
set ftp autoencryption on
set ftp credential-forwarding off
set ftp authtype tls
set ftp server-character-set ascii
set ftp character-set-translation off
ftp open secureftp.fhsc.com 21000 /user:username
if success {
    set ftp command-protection-level private
    set ftp data-protection-level private
}

You can use the same commands in C-Kermit and Kermit 95. In Kermit 95, you can also create the connection by making a Dialer entry and filling in its General, FTP, and TLS pages with the corresponding information:

Also see: Accessing IBM Information Exchange with the Kermit FTP Client

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