From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-03-01T08:11:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::FTP hangs

On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Timothy Hunter wrote:

> ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
>> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Timothy Hunter wrote:
>> 
>>> Peter Booth wrote:
>>>> Works for me from script or in irb. I'd be suspicious about your name 
>>>> resolution
>>>> 
>>>> I'd suggest breaking this down - do any of the net examples work?
>>>> Try an http example
>>>> Try writing a dns client
>>>> 
>>> open-uri works to retrieve a web page via a url. curl works. I installed 
>>> the most recent version of Ruby but it didn't help.
>>> 
>> 
>> ftp.passive = true
>> 
>> ??
>> 
>> -a
> That did the trick, Ara! Thanks! Now the question is, why?
>

most client software auto negotiates this these days, like curl, which is very
smart.  ruby's ftp lib doesn't.  i always forget which is which between
passive and active, but i think people are moving toward passive because it
plays nice with firewalls.

   http://slacksite.com/other/ftp.html

regards.

-a
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