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Re: LYNX-DEV unworkable ftp URLs
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Bill Reif |
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Re: LYNX-DEV unworkable ftp URLs |
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Wed, 28 Jan 1998 23:45:24 +600 |
On 1998-01-25 address@hidden said:
>Cc: address@hidden
>> ftp://mp3:address@hidden
>20/humorous/(unknown_-12_pains_of_christmas.mp3
>With that URL, I wouldn't expect a very reliable service. You have
>someone with no domain name and using a named account, not
>anonymous ftp. This may well be an unauthorised server; it may well
>be in violation of site policies on releasing passwords (if you can
>create a new account to avoid compromising passwords, it should be
>as easy to create an anonymous ftp server). The server may well
>have been shut down by the local computing services department.
>It's also possible (I'd go as far as saying probable) that the site
>firewall is blocking incoming ftps to that address.
>To debug it, you should use a command line ftp program. Remember
>that you want to do:
>ftp 128.61.74.20
>then respond mp3 to both user and password prompts.
>> The result of an attempt is normally that Lynx will give the
>>"making FTP request" message and wait for a very long time before
>>giving the "unable to access document" message. This inability
>effects both the UNIX
>That would be consistent with a firewall configured to drop ftp
>packets without returning an ICMP xxx unreachable response.
I guess I don't want the file that bad. There's a line between
downloading files made available somewhere and essentially breaking into
someone's system, even if that breakin is with the assistance of a user
of that system. This is an URL type I've encountered at several
sources, though never used successfully. With my luck, I'd get a
redialer to get me through the firewall, something unrelated would bring
that system down, and I'd be left holding the bag. I wonder whether the
page was designed to let those behind the filewall share files.
Bill Reif
Springfield, Illinois
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