Re: [cobalt-users] FTP and FXP

[Gordon <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 17 May 2000, Joe Kerns wrote:

> > Did somebody try to configure  the FTP server of Cobalt products to do
FXP ? FXP is the capability to initiate from an FTP/FXP client
 (like FlashFXP for NT/95)

heh, only NT would need a server extension for something that's been part
of the standard protocol for a decade, the ftp protocol has had the
ability to transfer data between two remote machines since it was
invented, it's the clients that don't really know how to do this..

(When you use the pasv command you are actully using the reverse data
connection mode)

It would be nice if the clients supported this better, but most people
just log in to one of the machines with telnet and ftp from there, which
is probably why no one has really bothered to give the clients this
capability..

g