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Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx 2.7.5
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx 2.7.5 |
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Thu, 3 May 2007 16:33:23 -0400 (EDT) |
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Fred Kasner wrote:
I have previously used lynx at sdf.freeshell.org for downloading from
ftp.symantec.com/AVDEFS/norton_antivirus . In the past this worked quite
It's hanging because of some bug in lynx's passive-ftp support,
which can be disabled by setting
Further investigation shows me it's lynx not recovering properly from a
bug of the ftp server - the same case as I worked around in this instance.
That is, it pretends to accept commands after reporting an error, but will
close the data connection when doing a LIST. This one is called
"spftp/1.0.0000":
2004-01-07 (2.8.5dev.17)
* add check for broken ProFTPD 1.2.5rc1, e.g., at ftp://ftp.oldskool.org/pub,
and force a reconnection if an error 550 is detected when doing RETR. This
is ifdef'd with BROKEN_PROFTPD and checks version (reports by GV, DK) -TD
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Thomas E. Dickey
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