From: Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2007-03-01T11:14:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::FTP hangs

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> 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
Thank you for the education, Ara. My ignorance of FTP is a bit less vast 
than before, thanks to you.