From: Mateusz Tybura <wujciol@...>
Date: 2008-08-02T02:53:50+09:00
Subject: Re: My simple downloader doesn't work

Frederick Cheung wrote:
> On 1 Aug 2008, at 15:20, Mateusz Tybura wrote:
> 
>>> Beyond firewalls, active ftp won't work behind a NAT device.
>>> Ftp servers sometimes say illegal port command if you tell them that
>>> your address is a private ip address like 192.168.x (your address on
>>> the network behind the nat device)
>>>
>>> Fred
>>
>> It can be it cause i'm connecting from small LAN. Got any idea how to
>> make it works even that host is beheind nat device?
> 
> You need to be using passive ftp. According to the docs you just need
> to say ftp.passive = true (assuming ftp is an instance of Net::FTP)
> 
> Fred

With ftp.passive my first code works but version using open-uri was 
smaller. So I'm asking about how to set passive mode using open-uri?
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