> > My (very quick) assessment is that urlgrabber requires urllib which in > turn requires lowerlevel libs to do the actual work.. In the case of ftp, > the lower level lib is ftplib, which has a set_pasv() call, but was never > documented in urllib/ftplib until 1.5.2 (eg: after yum....) not sure what > the deal is with python2. All this infeered from a quick scan fo the > source and > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-bugs-list/1999-August/000095.html > well a lot of stuff has changed since 1999. :) > Assuming 1.x, possibly 1.98... I think the platform is RHL-8.0 > I'll need more to go on - rhl 8.0 is all weird - if they updated rpm to 4.1.1 then they could be running 2.x - if not the 1.x If you're getting an actual error I'd _love_ to see that, too. > Well.. I think that firewall==NAT and possibly the gateway doesn't have > one of the standard ftp modules laoded... I partly was thinking that the > ability to do PASV was/should be there, perhaps wrongly? well, I'd like to see what's happening, I would expect it to work - but the firewall/nat will need to be able to cope with pasv connections too. Also - why not just use http -it gets around all the stupidity with ftp and is much cleaner imo. -sv
