OW and Passive FTP

[Tattoo Mabonzo K.]

On Wednesday, March 21, 2001, at 11:38 , Ken Case wrote:

>> I was wondering is there a way to force OW (sneakypeek9) into 
>> downloading via FTP in passive mode (e.g. to download seed from ADC)?
>
> OmniWeb always tries passive FTP first, but if the server doesn't support 
> passive FTP (e.g., because it's behind a firewall) then it falls back on 
> trying active FTP.
>
> If both OmniWeb and the server are behind (different) firewalls, you can'
> t use direct FTP whether passive or active (unless one of the firewalls 
> is smart enough to interpret your ftp conversation and temporarily 
> another port).  The typical solution to this problem is to use a proxy 
> server (which the firewall must know about), and have it make those ftp 
> connections for you.
>

Thanks Ken.
My problems were related to some transient failures it seems since I can 
now dl stuff w/o problems.

= tmk =