lynx-dev ftp and passive transfers

[Patrik Vahtras]

Wouldn't it nice to have passive transfers as a choice in the option menu
instead of having to recompile the source for it? 

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David Woolley <address@hidden> wrote:
>> How do I switch lynx into "passive" mode?
>
> djwhome:/usr/src/lynx/lynx2-7-2$ grep NOPORT Makefile
> # -DNOPORT         if you must use PASV instead of PORT for FTP
>
>> I've read the faq, docs and archives of this mailinglist.  Also, it
>> seems as though others have asked this question but haven't gotten a
>> response.
>
> < 5 mins reading the obvious source file (HTFTP.c).  It's in the heading
> comments, more or less.
>
> You will of course need to rebuild from source.  Further guidance may
> depend on your platform (not everyone uses Win '95, and Lynx is not
> originally a Windows program). 

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Frederic L.W.Meunier <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi. I just install all the versions of Lynx and i noticed an error with
> ftp in all the versions i used. I don't know if it's hard to reproduce.
> It's like this.  You run Lynx and make various ftp connections. At a
> moment Lynx stop returning the list of directories and archives. It
> only shows the top of the directory. I'm sure Lynx connected to the ftp
> site. This is a known bug or i'm the only one experiencing this problem?
> If it's a known bug, there's something to make ftp working correctly
> again without the need to restart Lynx?  I'm using Lynx 2.8.2dev19
> running Linux 2.2.2 on a RedHat 5.1 with all the updates. Lynx was
> compiled with Slang 1.3.5.  Thanks. 

Sounds to me like passive mode is required