From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-10-19T03:46:43+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie ftp problem

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Gavin Kistner wrote:

> From: lsumnler@gmail.com [mailto:lsumnler@gmail.com]
>> ftp = Net::FTP::new('my.url.com')
>> ftp.login('login_id','login_pass',nil)
>> ftp.chdir('data')
>>
>> all goes fine but at this point I have tried all of the following and
>> get the same errors

try

ftp.passive = true

>>
>> files = ftp.list('data')
>> files = ftp.dir('data')
>> files = ftp.dir(dir = nil)
>> files = ftp.nlst('data')
>>
>> Net::FTPPermError: 500 Invalid PORT command.

-a
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