fetch / wget problem

[Lance E. Lott]

Just a thought, try escaping the . with a \...

fetch: ftp://user\.name:password@server.mydomain.com/directory/file.ext:

I recently had to do that, and it seemed to work.

Lance


At 12:38 PM 12/16/2003, you wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I'm trying to write a script which gets a file from remote FTP server.
>
>The FTP username contains dots and this cannot be changed.
>
>There are two firewalls involved, one running on the same server where
>I'm doing this (ipfilter, using ipnat ftp proxy) and one between this
>server and the FTP server. The FTP server itself is in internal network
>using RFC1918 addresses and a port in firewall is being forwarded to
>this server.
>
>I think that firewalls are configured correctly, because I can
>successfully get the file manually, using the 'ftp' command.
>
>However, when I try this command:
>
>fetch ftp://user.name:password@server.mydomain.com/directory/file.ext
>
>I get an error message:
>fetch: ftp://user.name:password@server.mydomain.com/directory/file.ext:
>Host not found.
>
>I suspect that fetch, seeing a dot in username, attempts to 'resolve'
>the entire URL, instead of just the part after @. Is there a known
>workaround to this?
>
>I also tried wget, which succeeds to connect, but then, no matter what
>I do, insists on using passive mode.
>
>wget ftp://user.name:password@server.mydomain.com/directory/file.ext
>Connecting to server.mydomain.com[12.34.56.78]:2100... connected.
>Logging in as user.name ... Logged in!
>==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
>==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /directory ... done.
>==> PASV ...
>and then the process just hangs.
>
>I suspect it would work if I could somehow tell wget to NOT use passive
>mode. I initially had FTP_PASSIVE_MODE environment variable set, but
>removing this didn't affect wget's behaviour.
>
>Any ideas?
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