SPUG: CPAN & passive ftp?
Ben Reser
ben at reser.org
Thu Apr 25 01:32:57 CDT 2002
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 08:43:35PM -0700, 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?
Presumably you can get through your firewall with HTTP. Why not just
you an HTTP URL to CPAN?
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