On Fri, 3 Dec 2010, Lee Elcocks wrote:

> However when connecting we get the response,
>
> h1.h2.h3.h4,p1,p2 (notice the difference between full stops and comma's)

Wow. What server software is that? Do your other ftp clients do passive
transfers fine from it?

> 0000: 227 Entering Passive Mode (157.203.50.171,201,191)
>
> Can you please explain error 227 couldn't interpret? Does that mean that
> CURL does not understand the full stops?

Exactly.

The 227 response parser code in curl has been working like this since at least
Dec 29 1999 so it is a bit fascinating that you find a server now that curl
doesn't work with.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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