Re: lynx-dev Re: Another FTP site "incompatible" with Lynx's FTP_PASSIVE:TRUE (fwd)

[Frederick Bruckman]

As far as NetBSD's ftp server, it wasn't just lynx. Please try it
now...

Frederick

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 12:47:57 +1100
From: Luke Mewburn <address@hidden>
To: Frederick Bruckman <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Re: Another FTP site "incompatible" with Lynx's
    FTP_PASSIVE:TRUE (fwd)

On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 04:27:02AM -0600, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
  | Hi,
  |
  | Heads up -- I really don't know what's going on, but I suspect NetBSD
  | "ftpd" has something to do with it, though I don't have enough
  | evidence to call it a bug. I get the same thing with the latest lynx
  | release, running under NetBSD-1.5.3_ALPHA. I have a 6bone tunnel, but
  | get the same result with <ftp://ftp4.netbsd.org>.

It was a bug in ftpd.

Basically, we were always closing the data connection, even in
circumstances where we shouldn't have.

This caused problems with lynx & netscape which only send PASV/EPSV
when absolutely necessary, whereas our ftp client sent it before every
request that needs a data connection.

I've fixed the ftpd on ftp.netbsd.org, and I'll commit a fix to the
source once the cvs server is accessable again :/


Luke

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