From: Martin Boese <boesemar@...>
Date: 2008-07-31T17:48:22+09:00
Subject: Re: My simple downloader doesn't work

Maybe because active ftp and your firewall, try:

require 'open-uri'
open("ftp://whatever.ftp.site", :ftp_active_mode => false).read

or with net/ftp call: 
ftp.passive

martin

On Thursday 31 July 2008 08:29:15 WujcioL wrote:
> It still don't work:
> > require 'open-uri'
> > puts
> > open("anonymous:anonymous@sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/slackware/slackwar
> >e-12.0/CHECKSUMS.md5.asc").read
>
> Net:FTPPermError: 500 Illegal PORT Command
>
> I thinking about some bug in open-uri and net/ftp. Code is simple and
> it runs so that's not mine error. Of course i succesfully downloaded
> this file using Firefox3 and TotalCommander.
> Code was tested on winXP and Kubuntu8.04.