On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Joe Halpin wrote:

> We're having a problem with some (possibly overzealous) firewall admins who
> don't want us to use ephemeral ports on the client side of a transfer
> connection. The standard says that the client should normally use a default
> port for each data transfer, and I'm wondering if libcurl can do this?

No. libcurl sets port 0 (zero) on all local ends for outgoing connections,
including ftp data connections. Having it set to zero makes the system pick an
available one and use that.

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