lynx-dev what was the trick to using ftp?

[William December Starr]

Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> said:

>> Just tried to g)o to "ftp://lynx.isc.org/";, but Lynx just sits
>> there and times out or gives a message "Can't access ...".
>> Access via the shell prompt, "ftp lynx.isc.org", is immediate.
>> [Henry Nelson]
>
> what version of lynx is that?  (running dev.14+patches shouldn't
> make any difference, but that's working for me w/o problem).

For whatever it may be worth, I get exactly the same results, i.e.:

    g
    URL to open: ftp://lynx.isc.org/
    Getting ftp://lynx.isc.org/
    Looking up lynx.isc.org
    Making FTP connection to lynx.isc.org
    Can't access `ftp://lynx.isc.org/'
    Alert!: Unable to access document.

under both 2.7.1 (on MIT's machines) and 2.8.4rel.1 (on Panix).

On both systems, the Unix command "ftp lynx.isc.org/" (without the
quotes, of course) successfully takes me to lynx.isc.org's ftp login.

-- William December Starr <address@hidden>


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