FTP with WebRequest class - RETR command timeout

Hi,

I tried to use the FTP pluggable class provided by Microsoft:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;812409
(topic title: "812409 - HOW TO Write Pluggable Protocol to Support FTP in
Managed Classes by Using Visual C#.NET")

On local server, LAN and some remote servers, it works. On some other remote
servers, it only works until issuing the RETR command. That's when the
receiving control socket timeouts (the socket apparently doesn't receive
anything, since I set it to timeout after 4 minutes, and still no response).

Does anyone know how can I bypass this?

Thank you,
Mihai Cernea

Feroze
Sun Feb 22 21:55:35 CST 2004

Can you run a network sniffer and see why the control socket is timing out ?
Maybe it is timing out because the server is not sending the response to
that command ?

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"dependentu" <cerneamihaiaugustin@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Oq#ZEZW#DHA.2988@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I tried to use the FTP pluggable class provided by Microsoft:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;812409
> (topic title: "812409 - HOW TO Write Pluggable Protocol to Support FTP in
> Managed Classes by Using Visual C#.NET")
>
> On local server, LAN and some remote servers, it works. On some other
remote
> servers, it only works until issuing the RETR command. That's when the
> receiving control socket timeouts (the socket apparently doesn't receive
> anything, since I set it to timeout after 4 minutes, and still no
response).
>
> Does anyone know how can I bypass this?
>
> Thank you,
> Mihai Cernea
>
>

J
Mon Feb 23 02:30:58 CST 2004

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 19:06:50 +0200, dependentu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried to use the FTP pluggable class provided by Microsoft:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;812409
> (topic title: "812409 - HOW TO Write Pluggable Protocol to Support FTP in
> Managed Classes by Using Visual C#.NET")
>
> On local server, LAN and some remote servers, it works. On some other remote
> servers, it only works until issuing the RETR command. That's when the
> receiving control socket timeouts (the socket apparently doesn't receive
> anything, since I set it to timeout after 4 minutes, and still no response).
>
> Does anyone know how can I bypass this?
>
Do those networks have firewall/proxy configurations? I ask because the
FTP protocol is not very friendly with some firewall configurations.
Unlike HTTP, you have two connections (a control connection where commands
are issued and responses are given and a data channel where data is sent to
the server or received from a server). The data channel is negotiated on
the control connection with one of these commands:

PORT

where the client specifies a port and IP address. The server then connect
to this port for the data connection.

PASV

The client issues PASV and the FTP server replies with a port and IP
address that the client needs to connect to for the data channel.

The data channel is used with STOU, STOR, RETR, and LIST. Sometimes, you
might get better results with firewall/proxies by using PASV and sometimes,
the results may be better with the PORT command. You may want to
experiment. Also, be sure that the firewall/proxy configuration settings
are set appropriately. There are different different types of proxies.

The Indy website (http://www.indyproject.org) has a knowledge-base which
includes some information about proxy types and settings for some of these.

HTH.

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