Hanging FTP connection handling suggestion

[Lefteous]

I'm a member here since many years and observed that there are some questions which are asked much more often then others. A very common question is "why ftp doesn't work?" or "ftp hangs - what can I do?". The usual answer is switch to passive mode. So far so good but wouldn't it be simpler to detect a hanging ftp connection and ask the user to make a passive mode retry and change the connection to passive mode permanently? what do you think?

[Stitscher]

Support. ++

[Hacker]

Why not make passive mode the default for all connections?

Roman

[petermad]

Why not make passive mode the default for all connections

Configuration -> FTP -> "Use passive mode by default"

But of course it works only for future FTP connection setups.

[roentgen]

Support.

This would come out in a try to make TC more user friendly which always seems to be the last considered thing.

[Hacker]

petermad,

Configuration -> FTP -> "Use passive mode by default"

Well the point is that it is turned off by default.

Roman

[ghisler(Author)]

Why not make passive mode the default for all connections?

It was the default in very early versions, but I got many complaints then because of servers not supporting passive mode, so I made active mode the default. TC still falls back from passive mode to port mode when passive mode fails. Maybe I can add the same also for the other direction...

[Stitscher]

2ghisler(Author)
That would be good.
It would protect you against al lot of emails and us against thousends of double threads.

Stitscher

[Lefteous]

2ghisler(Author)

t was the default in very early versions, but I got many complaints then because of servers not supporting passive mode, so I made active mode the default.

I had this in mind from earlier discussions.

TC still falls back from passive mode to port mode when passive mode fails. Maybe I can add the same also for the other direction...

That would be great.