FTP Question

[Mark Schonewille]

If you enable passive FTP, you have to set Rev's ftp mode to 
passive as well:

libURLSetFTPMode "passive"

Best,

Mark


Gregory Lypny wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
>     The handler below used to work when I was running Panther, but no  
> longer under Tiger.
> 
> on mouseUp
>   put "Now this field is empty." into fld "x"
>   libURLSetFTPMode "active"
>   get url ("ftp://username:password@IPAddress/Users/username/ 
> Documents/Folder/theFile.txt")
>   cleanLineEndings it
>   put it into fld "x"
>   put "Lines:" && the number of lines in it  & cr & \
>       "The result:" && the result into fld "X"
> end mouseUp
> 
> on cleanLineEndings @pText
>    replace crlf with return in pText
>    replace numToChar(13) with return in pText
> end cleanLineEndings
> 
>     I'm simply trying to download a text file from a remote Mac that  
> acts as a server.  On the remote Mac, I have enabled FTP Access in  
> Sharing preferences, enabled Passive FTP mode, enabled the firewall,  
> and have even tried creating a separate firewall rule (opening ports  
> 20-21, 1024-65535).  I have toggled each of these settings and have  
> tried with the firewall turned off, but nothing seems to work.  The  
> result of my "get URL" command is empty.  I verified that I am able  to 
> connect using Interarchy, an FTP client.
> 
>     Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
> 
>         Greg

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