Re: dselect ftp from behind a firewall (fwd)
[apologies if this is the second time you've seen this. I had a sendmail
problem.]
Thanks to all the people who replied on the list and by mail.
Unfortunately the problem is that this particular firewall (ANS Interlock)
requires you to login to the firewall first and then access the ftp site.
Luckily I discovered that dselect uses a perl script to actually do the
ftping based on the Net::FTP module. So I thought I'd just edit it to add
the second login. Unfortunate, I cannot for the life of me figure out how
to get it to accept the second password. Oh well, that's a question for
the perl groups.
I think I've found a good alternative. I noticed lynx has the right kind
of settings to get through the firewall. It also supports ftp URLs. So
what I've done is to rewrite dselects script to go through lynx. It seems
to be working but I'll test and polish it a bit more and if all goes well,
i'll submit as a new access method.
-- Jaldhar
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