Hi,
I'm not a REBOLnetworkingwizard, but from the error message
"tcp HTTP/1.0 408 Request Time-out."
it seems that a HTTP, not FTP server listens at default FTP port 21,
so the WinNT server configuration may be responsible for it.
Causes of such mysterious errors are easily discovered with a packet
sniffer and analyzer, where you can see the whole TCP communication.
hope this helps,
--
Michal Kracik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I had an HP-UX server running a REBOL script in a cron job every
> night to pull a data file from a wNT box. That script does
>
> foo: read ftp://userid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/file.txt
>
> (wrapped in a try block), then post-processes the data before
> writing it to a local file. This had been running non-stop
> since mid-April.
>
> On 26 Jun 2000 I upgraded that HP-UX box from 2.2 to 2.3
> (don't try to read that aloud! ;-). Everything continued to
> work properly.
>
> On 10 Aug 2000 the above statement began consistently failing.
> I can run the standard ftp utility from the command line and
> retrieve the file (with almost instantaneous response), but
> the REBOL script fails whether run manually or via cron.
>
> When I run REBOL interactively and try the same command, with
> tracing enabled, I get the following:
>
> >> system/schemes/ftp/passive: on
> == true
>
> (The above inspired by Carl's note below, but the same happens
> without that intervention.)
>
> >> foo: read ftp://userid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/file.txt
> connecting to: 1.2.3.4
> ** User Error: Server error: tcp HTTP/1.0 408 Request Time-out.
> ** Where: foo: read ftp://userid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/file.txt
>
> >> trace/net on
> >> foo: read ftp://userid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/file.txt
> URL Parse: userid password 1.2.3.4 none path/ file.txt
> Net-log: ["Opening tcp for" FTP]
> connecting to: 1.2.3.4
> Net-log: [
> none ["220" "230"]]
> ** User Error: Server error: tcp HTTP/1.0 408 Request Time-out.
> ** Where: foo: read ftp://userid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/file.txt
>
> >> system/schemes/ftp/passive
> == true
>
> Any suggestions from the REBOLnetworkingwizards about what I should
> try next?
>
> -jn-
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > It might be your firewall, if you have one. The 2.3 release
> > needs to have a line:
> >
> > system/schemes/ftp/passive: on
> >
> > in order to run in passive mode. Not very user friendly, sorry.
> > 2.2 did it automatically, but this mode cannot be reliably
> > detected on some firewalls.
> >
> > I'm think that we need to detect it better under 2.3... and do
> > at least as well as 2.2 in guessing at it.
> >
> > -Carl
> >
