On: How ProPublica Illinois Uses GNU Make to Load Data

[jwilk]

This FTP server supports TLS:

  211-Extended features supported:                     
   LANG EN*
   UTF8
   AUTH TLS;TLS-C;SSL;TLS-P;
   PBSZ
   PROT C;P;
   CCC
   HOST
   SIZE
   MDTM
   REST STREAM

I didn't check if aria2 would actually use it, but I doubt it.

Re alternatives to FTP: as far as only downloads are concerned, HTTPS should be way easier to set up than SFTP.