Total Commander

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?

Support. ++

Why not make passive mode the default for all connections?

Roman

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.

Support.

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

petermad,

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

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

Roman

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...

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

Stitscher

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.