From: "Brian C. Young" <youngb@...>
Date: 2002-09-13T00:08:22+09:00
Subject: Problem with Net::FTP.getbinaryfile

I am trying to write a simple script to retrieve all files that match a
certain filespec, e.g. as follows:

###
require 'net/ftp'

#please forgive the following, can't seem to connect to the Ruby site!
ftpConnection = Net::FTP.new("ftp.python.org")
ftpConnection.login("anonymous", nil)

ftpConnection.chdir("/pub/jython")

ftpConnection.list("*.tgz") {|fileInfo|

    fInfo = fileInfo.split()

    fileName = fInfo[8]
    fileSize = fInfo[4].to_i

    print "fetching ", fileName, ", ", fileSize, " bytes...\n"
    ftpConnection.getbinaryfile(fileName, fileName)

}

ftpConnection.close
###

Things blow up in getbinaryfile-- I get the following:

fetching jython-faqw-08-Oct-2001.tgz, 47825 bytes...
D:/Development/Ruby-1.6.7/lib/ruby/1.6/net/ftp.rb:218:in `transfercmd': 
200 PORT
 command successful. (Net::FTPReplyError)

        from D:/Development/Ruby-1.6.7/lib/ruby/1.6/net/ftp.rb:267:in 
`retrbinary'
        from D:/Development/Ruby-1.6.7/lib/ruby/1.6/net/ftp.rb:266:in 
`mon_synchronize'
        from D:/Development/Ruby-1.6.7/lib/ruby/1.6/net/ftp.rb:266:in 
`retrbinary'
        from D:/Development/Ruby-1.6.7/lib/ruby/1.6/net/ftp.rb:358:in 
`getbinaryfile'
        from E:\TEMP\gettgz.rb:17
        from E:\TEMP\gettgz.rb:8:in `call'
        from D:/Development/Ruby-1.6.7/lib/ruby/1.6/net/ftp.rb:295:in 
`retrlines'
        from D:/Development/Ruby-1.6.7/lib/ruby/1.6/net/ftp.rb:288:in `loop'
        from D:/Development/Ruby-1.6.7/lib/ruby/1.6/net/ftp.rb:288:in 
`retrlines'
        from D:/Development/Ruby-1.6.7/lib/ruby/1.6/net/ftp.rb:285:in 
`mon_synchronize'
        from D:/Development/Ruby-1.6.7/lib/ruby/1.6/net/ftp.rb:285:in 
`retrlines'
        from D:/Development/Ruby-1.6.7/lib/ruby/1.6/net/ftp.rb:444:in `list'
        from E:\TEMP\gettgz.rb:8

I am using ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [i586-mswin32] with Win2K Professional. 

I saw a reference to a patch to Net::FTP in 
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/42199 ,
but am uncertain as to how I would obtain it.

Many thanks.

Brian Young