SPUG: CPAN & passive ftp?

[Creede Lambard]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, dancerboy wrote:

> So, I've been having all sorts of weird behaviour with CPAN on my 
> MacOS X box at home, and I suddenly realized what I think the problem 
> is:  my firewall setup requires that I do all my ftp'ing in passive 
> mode.  I've looked through the CPAN configuration options, and can't 
> seem to find anything that would tell it to do it's ftp'ing 
> passively.  Is there a way to do this?
> 
> -jason
> 

I think ncftpget (one of the methods CPAN can use) uses passive mode as a
default.

I don't know whether lynx -source uses passive mode or not. It might use
http, which would bypass the question entirely.

In the main CPAN module there's a line that says

my $ftp = Net::FTP->new($host);

You should be able to force passive mode by changing that line to

my $ftp = Net::FTP->new($host, Passive=>1);

I think. :)

Hopefully one of those will work for you. Good luck!

Caveat: I haven't tried this, so save a backup.

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