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echo: wildcat!_support
to: ED KOON
from: mark lewis
date: 2017-02-12 17:38:10
subject: Wildcat Anonymous FTP

On 2017 Feb 12 12:44:30, you wrote to me:

 EK>>> Trying to figure a way to redirect the ftp port. These new browsers
 EK>>> do 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...

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

you can't http to ftp anyway... there has to be a http server there... you
can ftp to it, though...


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