Hi Bernd,

I wanted to touch base and ask what are my next steps--should I enter a
feature request on the Commons VFS JIRA board?  Also, my app is using
Commons VFS 2.0, so I was hoping to make the fix there and port it to 2.1.
Will there be any more releases in the 2.0 branch?

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Roger Membreno <roger.membr...@celigo.com>
wrote:

> 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)
>> >
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> -Thanks,
> Roger
>
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