On Saturday 28 February 2009 00:03:38 Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> > On Friday 27 February 2009 19:13:03 Ravi wrote:
> > > On Friday 27 February 2009 11:27:32 Rex Dieter wrote:
> > > > > Is there a KDE4 FTP client? As far as I can tell, the FTP
> > > > > kioslave from KDE3 has not been ported over to KDE4.
> > > >
> > > > I think you're mistaken. ftp:// urls work fine for me in
> > > > konq/dolphin
> > >
> > > Interesting. Here's what I see when trying to connect to
> > > ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com (which works fine with firefox) using
> > > konqueror:
> > > -----
> > > The requested operation could not be completed
> > > Access Denied
> > >
> > > Details of the Request:
> > > URL: ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com
> > > Protocol: ftp
> > > Date and Time: Friday 27 February 2009 12:08
> > > Additional Information: smb://download.fedora.redhat.com
> > >
> > > Description:
> > > Access was denied to the specified resource,
> > > ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com. -----
> > >
> > > The only issue I see that the additional information uses the smb
> >
> > kioslave.
> >
> > > Is that normal? I couldn't find anything on b.k.o. I am using
> > > kdelibs-4.2.0-15.fc10.x86_64 on F10 with everything up to date. I can
> > > see that kio_ftp.so exists in /usr/lib64/kde4.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Ravi
> >
> > It would seem that redhat.com and fedoraproject do not allow anonymous
> > ftp connections to their sites. I guess your stuck with the regular http
> > protocol.
>
> Sure they do. :-)
>
>
> [boutilpj@bartlaptop ~]$ ncftp ftp.redhat.com
> NcFTP 3.2.2 (Aug 18, 2008) by Mike Gleason (http://www.NcFTP.com/contact/).
>
> Copyright (c) 1992-2008 by Mike Gleason.
> All rights reserved.
>
> Connecting to 209.132.176.30...
> Red Hat FTP server ready. All transfers are logged. (FTP) [no EPSV]
> Logging in...
> Login successful.
> Logged in to ftp.redhat.com.
> ncftp / > quit
>
>
>
> [boutilpj@bartlaptop ~]$ ncftp download.fedora.redhat.com
> NcFTP 3.2.2 (Aug 18, 2008) by Mike Gleason (http://www.NcFTP.com/contact/).
> Connecting to 209.132.176.20...
> Fedora FTP server ready. Storage Provided by NetApp. All transfers are
> logged. [no EPSV]
> Logging in...
> Login successful.
> Logged in to download.fedora.redhat.com.
> ncftp / > quit
> [boutilpj@bartlaptop ~]$

OK... This was helpful. It would seem that some sites don't deal with non PASV mode ftp. I just enabled PASV mode in System Settings -> Network Settings -> Connection Preferences and I was able to connect to

download.fedora.redhat.com

but not to download.fedoraproject.org

Eli

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