Re: FTP client

"Stephen R. van den Berg" <[email protected]> Thu, 15 Jan 2015 16:34:23 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.pike.user
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Pontus ??stlund wrote:
>entering passive mode and such. The problem starts when I try to issue a
>LIST command. Nothing happens and the read-loop hangs until the server
>closes the connection. And I don't know why that is!

That's because any file transfer command (including LIST, which transfers the content
of the directory(file)) results in a temporary separate TCP connection which is
being used to transfer the filecontent.

See: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc959.txt
-- 
Stephen.