<ricolee99@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm getting a weird behavior with ftp whenever I do put.
>
> Here is what I'm doing:
>
> On Windows XP,
>
> using the Windows FTP Client in dos prompt:
>
> 1.) ftp> open testmachinename
> 2.) ftp> user: Anonymous
> 3.) ftp> password: blah
> 4.) ftp> get somefile.exe c:\somefile.exe
>
> Everything works great, but my situation is that I am downloading a
> large file in step 4, and I have an unreliable network connection such
> as dialup.
>
> I kill the dial up connection during step 4, repeat steps 1-4, kill the
> dial up connection again in step 4. On the third attempt to download
> the file, I get stuck where it says it's downloading the file but it
> hangs:
>
> 200 PORT command succesful.
> 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for somefile.exe
>
>
> eventually it times out after awhile and I get a message saying:
>
> Connection closed by remote host.
>
>
> I keep getting this to hang every THIRD attempt after killing the
> connection twice during download. It seems like a magic number, after
> two tries, it will hang, as if a socket is blocked. Can someone
> provide me any pointers?
>
> I appreciate any advice/hints.
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> Eric
>