Subject: Re: Passive FTP & Web browsers

From: "Geoff Terry" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:40:50 +1100

Some ftp clients dont support passive?

Geoff

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> From: Dave Wreski <[email-masked]>
> To: Gregory A Lundberg <[email-masked]>
> Cc: WU-FTPD mailing list <[email-masked]>; Pavel P. Zabortsev
<[email-masked]>
> Subject: Re: Passive FTP & Web browsers
> Date: Thursday, 11 February 1999 13:26
> 
> 
> >> Is there any way to disable PASSIVE command on wu-ftpd?
> 
> I thought passive mode was the preferred way of doing FTP data transfers?
 This
> is because the server designates the port that will be used, instead of
allowing
> the client to request the data port, no?
> 
> Why wouldn't you let this thru your firewall?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave