Using Windows FTP in PASSIVE mode

[Phil.Howell]

I don't have to use passive mode, so I will leave it to others to test this client
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/emacs/windows/contrib/ftp-for-win32.zip
Phil

[Steven Schweda]

> As long as we don't have the exact error
> messages, everything is open.

Oops. I confused a response from Mr. Howell
with more info from the original poster.

The fact remains that, at most, "quote pasv"
will tell you if the FTP server is _willing_
to do a passive transfer. It will _not_
cause the next transfer to be done
passively.

[Jack Trachtman]

Well, until/if I get time to trace the connection, I'll put this on hold.

Two things I've since discovered:

1) Windows FTP does seem to support Passive mode. In fact, there is a Windows Registry item for FTP "use PASV yes", so FTP seems to default to passive mode.

2) I discovered that the Internet Explorer's built-in FTP can connect to my "Host B" and both get a dir listing and xfer a file to me (though it has other problems: the dir listing doesn't show directories, and after the 1st file xfer it won't do another!)

Thanks all