[network:ftp client] kftpgrabber [Updated 2004-12-24]

Update 2004-12-24: Howl dependency removed. For normal ftp usage zeroconf is not needed anyway. Howl will be re-submited on another forum thread.
Update 2004-11-28: Packages were updated and the links remoded since point to old packages. Follow the thread for the packages sources that were updated.
For those KDE users who want to test kftpgrabber, can get the arch package source here:
PKGBUILD
pkgname=kftpgrabber
pkgver=0.5.0
pkgrel=3
pkgdesc="A graphical FTP client for KDE"
url="http://kftpgrabber.sourceforge.net/"
license=""
depends=('kdelibs>=3.2' 'openssl>=0.9.7d')
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=()
install=
source=(http://kftpgrabber.sourceforge.net/releases/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2)
md5sums=('80d0f75a5b62ea05297bad67d859815b')
build() {
cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
./configure --prefix=/opt/kde --without-howl
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install

excellent ftp client, tnx
kbear was never able to connect to any ftp on my computer... no idea why, but now i dont even care
tnx darkcoder

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I've tried turning the firewall off but this does not appear to make any difference(*). Also, I have Parallels installed and I'm sharing the internet connection with this (even though Parallels itself is not currently running). Turning this sharing off doesn't seem to change anything either.
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import org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient;
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e.printStackTrace();
finally {
try {
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The java version I used to compile and run my apps is 1.6.0_06 Does anyone can help figure out what is wrong when I use the Apache commons net FTP client?
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http://www.usinglinux.org/ftp/
http://www.linuxsoft.cz/en/sw_list.php?id_kategory=9
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thanks in advance
ldygunner

To answer your other questions, the tutorials have it all wrong. What they really need to explain, but fail to do so, is that the only situation where a FTP client would need to use active mode (the PORT command) is where the FTP server can't accept inbound connections on arbitrary port numbers. But that's a pathological case anyway: the FTP server can always accept connections on some well defined set of port numbers, to keep its own local firewall or NAT router happy. Consequently, there is really no need at all for a FTP client system to open up any ports to support active mode, rather than always operate in passive mode (as browsers do.)
The fact of the matter is that if passive mode works in a browser for you, it will work for Filezilla also.
And the configuration tests it runs are brain damaged. Even though the wizard recommends passive mode, it never tests for it. And it doesn't really test active mode either. What it really tests is whether anything between the client and the server is "transparently" translating IP addresses and port numbers. Such a test is broken, because the mere fact of port numbers being rewritten in TCP packets is irrelevant to whether PORT (active mode) will succeed or fail.
For completeness, in case someone decides to get pedantic, there is a case where a FTP client system would need the active mode PORT command to work, but that case is now of historical interest only. It's a scenario that FTP servers no longer support, for security reasons. (What is it? When the FTP client is operating as a controller to remotely transfer files between two servers: it tells one server to use passive mode, and sends the address/port it gets to the other server in active mode, which in theory would make the second server open a connection to the first. This, in fact, is why two modes, active and passive, were originally defined in the FTP standard!) And it still wouldn't need open ports on the client system.
Message Edited by arayq2 on 10-19-2008 09:12 PM

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