Hello again,
Thank you for your reply. Very informative. The programmatic solution sounds like it would be the only way, if it is possible at all, for me to use sFTP with my current setup. It does sound like it would be technically better to use sFTP as apposed to TLS. However SSL v3 isn't really all that bad either.
I think I have got what I was looking for with this post. I will continue as planned and use TLS for now as it does seem to be the easiest and least time consuming solution to implement for my situation. Thank you for your advise/info. Very much appreciated.
One other question I just realized. Does TLS/SSL also encrypt all the traffic like SSH does?
Thanks!