TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: wildcat!_support
to: MARK LEWIS
from: ED KOON
date: 2017-02-12 12:44:30
subject: Re: Wildcat Anonymous FTP

On Feb 12, 2017 11:56am, MARK LEWIS wrote to ED KOON:

EK>> Trying to figure a way to redirect the ftp port. These new browsers do
EK>> not allow accessing domain:21 due to security.

ML> ummm... they should... the problem is that ftp uses more than one
ML> port... there's a command port and some data ports... your firewall
ML> needs to be able to handle the redirect as well as associating
ML> connections with ftp and adjusting their ports, too... passive and
ML> active ftp also come into play... sometimes one works and the other
ML> not... especially with NAT involved... there is no redirection
ML> capability like with http, either...

Probably more trouble than it's worth, especially since some browsers block a
command to web browse an ftp directory: http://bbs.docsplace.org:21
Firefix and Chrome brings up a port specific request blocked message.

Here is a list of ports Mozilla Blocks:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Mozilla_Port_Blocking

... Message Online or QWK With Our Web Interface!
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
* Origin: Fido Since 1991 BBS.DOCSPLACE.ORG (1:123/140)
SEEN-BY: 34/999 90/1 116/18 120/331 123/140 500 128/187 140/1 218/700 222/2
SEEN-BY: 230/150 249/303 250/1 261/38 100 267/155 280/1027 282/1031 1056
SEEN-BY: 292/908 320/119 219 340/400 393/68 396/45 633/0 267 280 281 412
SEEN-BY: 712/620 848 770/1 801/161 189 2320/100 3634/12
@PATH: 123/140 261/38 712/848 633/280 267

SOURCE: echomail via fidonet.ozzmosis.com

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.