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Command-line FTP function does not work
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I am using Windows 7 and have multiple FTP client applications working without any problem. However, when I use command-line FTP, I can get connected, log in (after entering user name and password), but it always gets disconnected when the dir or ls command is used. The response is: Connection clos…
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Fix for: Command-line FTP function does not work
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You'll usually see this type of thing happen when the server tries to connect back to you but can't. FTP originally used two TCP channels. One was for commands, and the other for transferring data. When you run the dir command it uses a data channel…
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