On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 09:16:50AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 24Aug2006 07:45, linuxmanjusha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | whats the difference b/w active and passive ftp > > With active FTP you say GET (or PUT or DIR etc) and open a listening > port on _your_ machine, telling the FTP server the port number. Then the > server connects to you. Totally hostile to sane firewalling and of > course anyone may get lucky and connect to you, etc. > > PASV FTP is more conventional. You say GET/PUT/LS and the server opens > the listen port and you connect to it for the data transfer.
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