On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 06:15:44PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > 030412 Thomas Dickey wrote: > >> 030412 Henry Nelson wrote: > >>> Just tried to g)o to "ftp://lynx.isc.org/";, but Lynx just sits there > >>> and times out or gives a message "Can't access ...". > >> same here with 2-8-5dev.6 . > >>> Access via the shell prompt, "ftp lynx.isc.org", is immediate. > >> yes, but it asks for a username & password & won't login without: > >> is that the problem? > > perhaps. I see that my config has FTP_PASSIVE set to true. > > i have never changed the line in lynx.cfg : > > #FTP_PASSIVE:FALSE
perhaps the comments apply: # Set FTP_PASSIVE to TRUE if you want to use passive mode ftp transfers. # You might have to do this if you're behind a restrictive firewall. #FTP_PASSIVE:FALSE > > however, lynx.cfg doesn't say what the default behaviour is in this case: > it looks as if the default is TRUE , given my experience above. no - the default is false, but it's in userdefs.h which some people customize: userdefs.h:518: * If FTP_PASSIVE is set to TRUE here or in lynx.cfg, ftp transfers will userdefs.h:521:#define FTP_PASSIVE FALSE src/LYMain.c:191:PUBLIC BOOLEAN ftp_passive = FTP_PASSIVE; /* TRUE if doing ftp in passive mode */ src/LYReadCFG.c:1306: PARSE_SET(RC_FTP_PASSIVE, ftp_passive), src/LYrcFile.h:76:#define RC_FTP_PASSIVE "ftp_passive" -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
