Hi Bernd,
For now I was using a max and min property so I could pass int values
directly from my adaptor layer to VFS. What do you recommend? A string
range's only issue that I can see is parsing, but something simple could
work.
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Bernd Eckenfels <e...@zusammenkunft.net>
wrote:
> Hello Roger,
>
> sounds useful to me. Do you plan to parse a string range ("1-100") or
> define a min and max property?
>
> Gruss
> Bernd
>
> Am Mon, 7 Dec 2015 13:26:35 -0800
> schrieb Roger Membreno <roger.membr...@celigo.com>:
>
> > Hello Apache Community, how are you doing?
> >
> > We use Commons VFS in our FTP connection projects, and for a recent
> > project we only able to connect to our FTP site when using Passive
> > mode. If we used Active mode we could login to the FTP site but all
> > files in the directory did not exist and could not be accessed.
> >
> > Since our server is behind a firewall with NAT translation we
> > determined that the data connection could not be established even if
> > we opened up some ports on the firewall. We were able to connect to
> > the FTP site using a stanadalone FTPClient by setting the following
> > properties to match our NAT security settings:
> > setReportActiveExternalIPAddress()
> > client.setActivePortRange()
> >
> > With these properties set the PORT command issued by our client to
> > the FTP site will create a valid data connection. What I'd like to
> > do is submit a change via GitHub that does the following:
> > 1. Add "reportActiveExternalIPAddress" and "activePortRange"
> > properties to the class
> > org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.ftp.FtpFileSystemConfigBuilder 2.
> > Ehance createConnection in
> > org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.ftp.FtpClientFactory to read these
> > new FtpFileSystemConfigBuilder properties from the config instance
> > and set them on the FTPClient.
> >
> > Let me know if you have any questions. If you think this is a good
> > change I'll make a new issue in JIRA for this enhancement. I also
> > think that these changes could help resolve VFS-201 (
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VFS-201)
> >
>
>
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-Thanks,
Roger
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