On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, michael mittiga wrote:

> Login works but I do not get the file and it tries to do passive and
> freezes.
>
> Freezes here.
> 257 "/" is current directory.
> * Entry path is '/'
>> CWD ELIS
> < 250 CWD command successful.
>> CWD outbound
> < 250 CWD command successful.
>> EPSV
> * Connect data stream passively
> < 500 'EPSV': command not understood.
> * disabling EPSV usage
>> PASV

You didn't mention what curl version, but this certainly looks like a server
problem. PASV is supposed to get a response back and _then_ curl can take
actions depending on what it returns. If it simply doesn't respond to the
PASV, there's not much curl can do about it...

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