Re: EFS 1.18 bug: Proxy gateway string wrong for our gateway

Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] (sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de)
19 Feb 1999 11:36:31 +0100


>>>>> "RR" =3D=3D Reid Rivenburgh <reid@lanl.gov> writes:

RR> Fellow efs'ers:

RR> This is a copy of something I posted to comp.emacs.xemacs.  It's
RR> probably more appropriate to send it to you, though, in case you don't =

RR> read that group.  Here it is:

RR> We recently had a firewall put in, so I had to switch to using efs's
RR> proxy gateway.  I ran into a problem with the string that it sends the
RR> proxy, though; it would choke on the "quote USER" portion, thinking it
RR> was the port number.  If I take out the "quote USER" part and just
RR> send anonymous@ftp.site, things work fine.

Your ftp client apparently does the wrong thing.  With the "-n"
option, it should not prompt you for a username.

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