On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> On a related note, is there any way to make wget use passive mode when
> getting with ftp://. wget seems to work fine when used with http://,
> but I'm behind a firewall and it doesn't work when using the ftp
> prefix. I suspect it's because wget uses active mode for the ftp
> transfers (I need to use passive mode for ftp transfers when using the
> basic ftp program). I looked through the wget man page and didn't see
> anything about passive mode, but I thought other people might have the
> same situation and found a work around.
>
Try from the command line "wget --help" and you'll see under "FTP
options:" '--passive-ftp' as an option.
Interesting when the help file is more useful than the man page. :-)
John
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