Re: lynx-dev Can't access FTP server

[Ian Collier]

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 06:09:49PM -0700, Doug Kaufman wrote:
> I have found a FTP server which I can not access from lynx,
> although it works fine from a command-line ftp client. This is
> "ftp://ftp.franken.de";, the server containing many of the MingW ports
> of GNU programs. 

I think the answer is that this server wants a PORT command for every
transfer, but lynx tries "RETR /" and "LIST" without an intervening
PORT command.

imc

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