Message 339712 - Python tracker

Message339712

Author	davispuh
Recipients	davispuh, giampaolo.rodola
Date	2019-04-09.07:57:09
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It's not uncommon to encounter FTP servers which are misconfigured and return unroutable host IP (eg. internal IP) when using passive mode See: https://superuser.com/a/1195591 Most FTP clients such as FileZilla and WinSCP use a workaround when they encounter such servers and connect to user's specified host instead. > Command: PASV > Answer: 227 Entering Passive Mode (10,250,250,25,219,237). > Status: Server sent passive reply with unroutable address. Using server address instead. Currently Python's ftplib simply timeouts for these and doesn't work.

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It's not uncommon to encounter FTP servers which are misconfigured and return unroutable host IP (eg. internal IP) when using passive mode

See: https://superuser.com/a/1195591

Most FTP clients such as FileZilla and WinSCP use a workaround when they encounter such servers and connect to user's specified host instead.

> Command: PASV
> Answer: 227 Entering Passive Mode (10,250,250,25,219,237).
> Status:  Server sent passive reply with unroutable address. Using server address instead.

Currently Python's ftplib simply timeouts for these and doesn't work.

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