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 > > > *Roger Membreno *| Senior Software Engineer > Celigo, Inc > > O 650.579.0210 x101 > F 650.240.0143 > E roger.membr...@celigo.com > W www.celigo.comFollow Us <http://celigo.com/blog/> > <http://www.linkedin.com/company/celigo-inc> > <https://plus.google.com/101644332205934540197/posts> > <https://twitter.com/celigoinc> <http://www.youtube.com/user/CeligoInc> > > > > > > -- -Thanks, Roger *Roger Membreno *| Senior Software Engineer Celigo, Inc O 650.579.0210 x101 F 650.240.0143 E roger.membr...@celigo.com W www.celigo.comFollow Us <http://celigo.com/blog/> <http://www.linkedin.com/company/celigo-inc> <https://plus.google.com/101644332205934540197/posts> <https://twitter.com/celigoinc> <http://www.youtube.com/user/CeligoInc>