Eessa Kamal wrote:
>
> I tried to find that PASV option on Netscape window but could not find it.
> Do I need to install an ftp client program, or is it possible to set this
> PASV option manually on Netscape screen.
Netscape uses PASV by default and to my knowledge there is no way to make
it behave otherwise. PASV mode is very good when you want to protect
clients so I wouldn't want to have it any other way since there are
more clients to protect than there are FTP servers to protect, and
normal lusers don't go installing third party apps on my FTP
servers :-)
IE used to use PASV by default, up to v4. Version 5 uses active mode FTP
when you have it set to display FTP servers as the "file explorer view",
but when you set it to "display FTP directories as a web page" (or
something) it uses PASV mode. Now, why File view vs HTML view would
constitute changing between active and passive mode I will never know,
and probably neither did the guy at Microsoft who coded it :-P
(Probably thinking "oh, explorer type view is active and web pages
are passive, so I'll have to change the transfer mode". Duh.)
I'm done rambling now, I promise :-)
/Mike
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