Re: Problems with FTP

2011-01-21 Thread RizlaJ
Thanks Giampaolo, Benjamin for your responses. You are correct, if I can connect to the ftp site from home and you can connect too then the problem (as you state) lies at the firewall or some security issue. Thanks for your detailed responses, they've been very helpful to me. Kind Regards -- http

Re: Problems with FTP

2011-01-21 Thread RizlaJ
Hi Tom, Giampaolo, Thank you both for your swift replies. I have asked our IT dept to see if it is the firewall that is blocking the FTP. They are working on that side of things. However I would have thought that the following or some version of it would have worked:- >>> import urllib >>> proxi

Problems with FTP

2011-01-21 Thread RizlaJ
Hi all, I'm very new to python. I'm using Python 2.7, in a corporate environment, therefore am behind a proxy server, firewalls etc. I can ftp to a barclays capital ftp site ok in internet explorer, but I can't get the FTP from ftplib to work for me. Can someone please help! I've tried the follow