From: Koen Vervloesem <koen.vervloesem@...>
Date: 2004-10-27T07:03:26+09:00
Subject: FTP list fails on Mac OS 10.3

Hi,

The following example program of PickAxe 2 fails on Mac OS 10.3:

require 'net/ftp'
ftp = Net::FTP.new('ftp.netlab.co.jp')
ftp.login
ftp.list
ftp.close

/sw/lib/ruby/1.8/net/ftp.rb:276:in `initialize': Protocol not supported 
- socket(2) (Errno::EPROTONOSUPPORT)
         from /sw/lib/ruby/1.8/net/ftp.rb:276:in `open'
         from /sw/lib/ruby/1.8/net/ftp.rb:276:in `makeport'
         from /sw/lib/ruby/1.8/net/ftp.rb:310:in `transfercmd'
         from /sw/lib/ruby/1.8/net/ftp.rb:402:in `retrlines'
         from /sw/lib/ruby/1.8/net/ftp.rb:400:in `synchronize'
         from /sw/lib/ruby/1.8/net/ftp.rb:415:in `retrlines'
         from /sw/lib/ruby/1.8/net/ftp.rb:609:in `list'
         from test.rb:4

Apparently the login works, but the list fails. This occurs also with 
other ftp servers. What's happening here?

koan$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04) [powerpc-darwin]
koan$ sw_vers
ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.3.5
BuildVersion:   7M34

Koen
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