Bug#123782: boot-floppies: dbootstrap's wget should use passive ftp
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:09:30 -0600
"Mike Coleman" <mkc@mathdogs.com> wrote:
> If I'm reading net-fetch.c correctly, its call to 'wget' doesn't use
passive
> ftp. This will fail for people behind many firewalls.
>
> Shouldn't it use --passive-ftp by default? AFAIK, turning it on
should
> (virtually) never cause a problem, and will be a lot better on
balance.
>
>
busybox wget as used by the installer doesnt support the --passive-ftp
option, but looking at the busybox wget code it does send the PASV
command, so maybe it does it assumes this behaviour. (i didnt look into
it very deeply though)
Glenn
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