Re: lynx-dev FTP problem with "Microsoft FTP Service"

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 08:36:18PM -0300, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 14:25:08 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 
> >> lftp> open ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/
> 
> > I can connect to it (that's dev.2, but should be nothing
> > related to ftp in post 2.8.4):
> 
> I'm giving up. 10 minutes and still "Receiving FTP
> directory." ! Tried 
> ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/BIOS/BIOS_FLASH_UTILS/ with
> dev.2
> 
> OK, I think the problem is FTP_PASSIVE:TRUE . It worked with
> FALSE.

sounds like a bug, then.  I did see a comment a few months ago saying that
there was a problem with passive ftp in lynx, but was not able to see it
break.
 
> With LFTP it connected in seconds and seems to use passive
> mode:
> 
> lftp> ls
> ---> PASV
> <--- 227 Entering Passive Mode (212,123,225,149,8,83).
> ---- Connecting data socket to (212.123.225.149) port 2131
> ---> LIST
> <--- 125 Data connection already open; Transfer starting.
> 06-18-01  09:13AM                67881 aflash136.zip
> 08-01-01  04:36PM               264002 amifl827.zip
> 08-10-01  10:54AM              1758649 asusupd32805.exe
> 07-26-01  09:27AM                  937 index.txt
> 01-04-01  03:00PM       <DIR>          OLD_FLASHER
> 01-04-01  03:02PM                35687 Phlash.zip
> 06-06-01  09:35AM                35006 s8phlash.zip
> <--- 226 Transfer complete.
> ---- Closing idle connection
> ---> QUIT
> <--- 221
> 
> Strange because all other FTP sites work with both browsers.
> I'm on 56K.
> 
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