Daniel Stenberg wrote on "FTP, EPSV and SIZE":

> Can anyone see any major drawback in making curl attempt to use EPSV before
> PASV when doing passive retrieves?

This is what OpenBSD ftp has been doing for some time.

I just heard a week or two ago from someone whose firewall setup is
for whatever reason managing to block EPSV, though. Don't ask me why.
Having a command line option to force PASV would be nice.

 - Heikki
Received on 2001-11-28