Just a side-comment - maybe we're luddites here, but we use FTP all the time to get things from A to B. Every single day. I know it's old, but it's still useful.
On 18 October 2013 09:46, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > >You do need a higher end firewall though. >> > > I didn't want to confuse matters previously, but now things have calmed > down I can add that the offending server is actually inside an Amazon AWS > server instance. I turned off the Windows firewall ages ago, but Amazon > have their own "Security Group" feature where you say which > inbound/outbound ports are open. I'm not sure why they have such a "meta > firewall" as it just confuses things for customers. It turns out that this > feature was irrelevant to our problem anyway. > > The other good news is that the chap writing the Borland C++ code found a > passive switch which lets his ftp operations work perfectly. I'm still > going to urge him over to http instead. > > Greg K >
