October 5th, 2010

Week 40 of 2010

The problem with the windows version of FTP.exe and entering passive mode with quote PASV – it doesn’t work!

Many FTP clients do not support PASV transfers. For example, the standard FTP.EXE built into Windows does not support this feature. The user can still do a “quote PASV”, which will tell the server to enter PASV mode, but the client still will not work in this mode. (This is a common problem, users enter [...]