Try reproducing Firefox Bug No. 611511

[Shlomi Fish]

On Wednesday 01 December 2010 13:19:20 Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 11:44:00AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > Hi Yedidyah,
> > 
> > On Wednesday 01 December 2010 10:08:16 Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
> > > 5. Since I do not know how, if at all, you can make firefox, and most
> > > other clients, use normal Passive mode and not Extended, the simplest
> > > workaround seems to me, for now, to be to use http. Any specific reason
> > > for using ftp in this case?
> > 
> > Well, for a time, I had horrible download speeds when downloading using
> > http:// from http://mirror.isoc.org.il/ and it was better at using ftp://
> > so that's what I used.
> 
> It was probably due to changes we did to our filtering and related stuff.
> Please try http and tell us if you have a problem.

It seems OK now - I'm getting a speed over 300 KB/s.

> 
> > > 6. I have no idea what caused it to start happening a few days ago. We
> > > did not change anything on our side, as far as I know. Perhaps firefox
> > > changed its behaviour on a version you recently updated to. I
> > > definitely see in the logs such behaviour many months ago.
> > 
> > Well, I said "a few days ago" back at the bug report, which was reported
> > at 11-Nov-2010 (about three weeks ago).
> 
> "many months" means more than one. 

Where do you see "many moths"?

> I checked again and see that it seems
> to start being used around 2009-08. ftp does not report a "User Agent".
> Based on the files downloaded, it seems it was incorporated to opensuse's
> update mechanism (yum? forgive my ignorance), with others following, and
> firefox probably did this too now. Well, I guess we'll somehow have to make
> this work, one way or another. For the time being, please use http if you
> have problems with your ftp client, and tell us if you have problems.
> If you have or know about an important client that supports only ftp,
> and which moved or is expected to move soon to EPSV, please tell us, so
> we'll consider this more urgent.
> 

OK, thanks.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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