Try using Passive transfer mode (use Passive => 1 in new(), or set env
var.
FTP_PASSIVE)
Todd Gruhn's account wrote:
>
> I seem to have a bit of a quandry: I wish to write a subroutine
> using PERL to download RFCs when I click on the appropriate Tk widget.
>
> My problem is neither the Net::FTP examples (by several authors) nor the
> libwww examples (from the Ram book and the lwpcook(3) manpage) work.
>
> I have reason to believe the problem is the firewall and a possible port
> change that takes place (in passive mode?).
>
> If I use FTP on the command line everything works fine; if I use Net::FTP
> and set Debug => 10, I can watch perl login, cwd, and ask for the file --
> after 5min the thing times out and there is nothing on the disk ( I
> believe it also complains about not being able to set up the data connection);
> if I use LWP, the thing just times out after 5min, and there is a file of 0B
> on my disk.
>
> For your information, I am using NetBSD 1.5.0 with the IPF firewall filter
> using "keep state" rules for TCP, UDP, and ICMP and PERL 5.6.0.
> I could REALLY use some advice...
