RE: FTP Issue

In case you haven't yet checked it out, Scott Klement's FTP API allows you
to implement your own custom FTP client.  Good stuff!

Eric DeLong
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-----Original Message-----
From: James H. H. Lampert [mailto:jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 6:32 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: FTP Issue


"Shrader, Patrick" wrote:
> This was the answer. Talking with another friend he taught me that PCs use
> active mode by default, and my PC can transfer things all day. The other
end
> (server end) told me to use passive mode, but they were just plain wrong.
As
> soon as I turned passive mode off (sendpasv 0) the files started
> transmitting like a champ.

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Actually, the ideal solution is to write your FTP client so it can go
either way. Preferably by automatically detecting that whichever mode
you try first isn't working.

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