Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 14:00:55 -0500 From: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.cc> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: junkmale@xtra.co.nz, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP passive mode - a new default? Message-ID: <19990528190055.3C3CBB740@spawn.nectar.cc> In-Reply-To: <xzpn1ypo0v7.fsf@localhost.ping.uio.no> References: <19990526182800.EGOX7623210.mta2-rme@wocker> <xzpn1ypo0v7.fsf@localhost.ping.uio.no>
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On 28 May 1999 at 14:05, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> wrote: > FTP servers which do not accept passive mode are, IMHO, broken. Their > loss. I'll second that opinion. Netscape and Microsoft browsers, at least, have been using passive FTP for years (1994 or earlier). One could argue that these are the most used FTP clients in the world, and has made passive mode a de facto requirement for public FTP servers. Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.cc / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the messagehelp
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