Re: [mh] get_url for ftp fails under Linux

[Matthew W. <mat...@us...>]

David Oglesby wrote:
> Matt, I isolated the problem to the Net::Config.pm module, but there are
> other dependencies in that package causing problems. Long story short, I
> replaced the Net package with the copy in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 and
> everything now works fine.
> 

Well done.  Could you provide the long version of that story?  Net::Config
contains default config values for many of the modules that interact with
the net.  In particular for your bug, it contains the setting for proxies
and whether FTP is attempted in passive or active mode.  Perhaps you can
post your Net::Config.pm and I'll see which settings you have that are
different from standard.  We could then create new .ini parameters to
override these settings.

Matt