From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-08-11T06:00:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Odd Net::FTP behavior

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 rubyhacker@gmail.com wrote:

>
> ara.t.how...@noaa.gov wrote:
>> On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 rubyhacker@gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>
>> @ftp.passive = true  ??
>>
>
> Quite right, thank you.
>
> Never needed that before. Wonder why I do now.
> Not even sure what passive means.
>
> Eventually I'll move this app on to sftp anyway.
>
> Thanks,
> Hal

it's kinda confusing - i stumble on it from time to time - probably better to
google it than listen to me.  in any case the change would have been due to a
change on the server - not your stuff.  probably ;-)

-a
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