 Bill_MIBill In MichiganPremium,MVM
join:2001-01-03
Royal Oak, MI
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 ·Comcast
·WOW Internet and..
| reply to Moose2
Re: REFERENCE: FTP Modes and Ports That explains what I've seen alrighty! The "folder view" affecting the mode and the fact 5.1 (and 4.x, 5.0) was Active/PORT mode - since I never used folder view. This folder-view option still affects 6.0's mode I found out (the hard way, of course  ).
Currently, I'm on MSIE 5.5 on this box. I just checked and I don't have folder views and I don't have PASV. But... it clearly connects PASV mode (a sniffer or my personal firewall indicates this). Why?
Now... a not-so-technical user uses MSIE for ftp. What mode will they be using? How can you make it one or the other reliably? THAT is the problem to somehow overcome and I've seen no way to reliably do that. |
