> Because you can't reproduce it, and because it looks like it could be > a bug in ftplib, I'm going to set it aside until we get more > information. That is, until we find a way to reproduce it or > otherwise narrow it down. Thanks the for the report, though. It happened twice in a row today. The ftp server (or internet) seems heavily loaded. I guess that it happens when there is a kind of timeout (maybe when there is a tcp timeout during a ftp transmission, or the like ?). Pat