diff --git a/SendElabData.pl b/SendElabData.pl
index b715991..9e25fe4 100755
--- a/SendElabData.pl
+++ b/SendElabData.pl
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ sub getTimeStamp{    # parm [ts] => timestamp for filename; log => timestamp for
 		( $sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst ) = localtime(time() - 36000);
 		$format = "%04d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d";
 	}
-	
+
 	my $timestamp =sprintf( $format, $year + 1900, $mon + 1, $mday, $hour, $min, $sec );
 	return $timestamp;
 }
@@ -106,13 +106,13 @@ sub trxelab {
 	$ftp_parm =~ s/\s//g;
 
 	my %ftp_parms = ('Host' => $ftp_addrs,);
+	$ftp_parms{'Debug'} = 0;
+	$ftp_parms{'Passive'} = 1;
 
 	foreach my $parm (split(/,/, $ftp_parm)){
 		my ($key, $val) = split(/=>/, $parm);
 		$ftp_parms{$key} = $val;
 	}
-	$ftp_parms{'Debug'} = 0;
-	$ftp_parms{'Passive'} = 1;
 
 	print getTimeStamp("log") . " - pid $$ >> $unit - $tool ftp parm:\n" . Dumper(%ftp_parms);
 
@@ -124,6 +124,9 @@ sub trxelab {
 		  or die getTimeStamp("log"). " - pid $$ >> Cannot connect to $ftp_addrs: $@ \n";
 		$ftp->login( $ftp_user, $ftp_passwd )
 		  or die getTimeStamp("log"). " - pid $$ >> Cannot login ". $ftp->message . "\n";
+		if ( $ftp_parms{"SSL"} ) {
+			$ftp->starttls();
+		}
 		$ftp_target //= "";
 		if ( $ftp_target ne "" ) {
 			$ftp->cwd($ftp_target)