At 16:22 3/30/95, mtaie01!mtaho02!root @
sam .
wal-mart .
com wrote:
>Passive ftp is available for UNIX computers in source form, but what
>about its availability on other platforms (Macs and PCs running ftp
>software tcp/ip)?
Don't know anything about PCs. For Mac, I've been told that the Anarchie
program (which is real slick because it combines an Archie client and an
FTP client into a single program) supports passive mode, and that Fetch
doesn't; I'm sure others do, too.
Also, most of the WWW browsers (Mosaic, NetScape Navigator, etc.) have
built-in FTP clients, and most of these are passive-mode.
>Also, how widely do the "main" public ftp servers support it?
I'm tempted to say "universally", but I'm sure there are exceptions. If a
server doesn't, people using the built-in FTP clients in WWW browsers like
Mosaic and NetScape Navigator can't access the server; those clients are
responsible for a pretty significant fraction of the activity on the
Internet these days.
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