In article <Xn**********************************@151.164.30.4 2>, Squirrel Havoc <squirrelhavoc(takeout)@(takeout)yahoo.com> writes:
I am starting to write an FTP server, but I don't understand the PASV
protocol. RFC's haven't been much help, since they don't describe what it
is, or how it's done. Just what it can do (I think that's right).
The relevant RFCs describe PASV in sufficient detail to produce a
compliant implementation. There are various other treatments of the
subject available in print and electronic form, if you need additional
information..
Can anyone point me into the direction where I can find answers?
For Usenet, comp.protocols.tcp-ip. See in particular Uri Raz's
periodic post listing TCP/IP references.
For anything else, try Google.
Thanks, and sorry if this is the wrong server to post about this
Presumably it was the right server, since your post made it to Usenet.
If you're going to use Usenet, you should learn how it works and what
terminology to use. The traditional mechanism for this (various groups
in the news.* hierarchy) unfortunately is largely useless these days
due to spam. I recommend consulting RFC 1855, which has a brief but
useful discussion of both the medium and its conventions.
comp.lang.c is the wrong group, however. FTP is not covered by the C
standard. The two are entirely unrelated.
--
Michael Wojcik
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Against all odds, over a noisy telephone line, tapped by the tax authorities
and the secret police, Alice will happily attempt, with someone she doesn't
trust, whom she can't hear clearly, and who is probably someone else, to
fiddle her tax return and to organise a coup d'etat, while at the same time
minimising the cost of the phone call. -- John Gordon
