[DGD] Sensible telnet access for coders

[Noah Lee Gibbs]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Greg Lewis wrote:
> 1. Write an ftpd in LPC.  This has been done, and you should be able to
>    find one and port it to DGD and whatever lib you are using.  It can
>    use either the networking kfuns or the binary port.

  One problem with this is that you'll need to either use the (not
currently up-to-date) networking package for DGD or only implement passive
FTP.  The FTP protocol is old, and unfortunately requires making outgoing
connections.  It has trouble dealing with NAT, firewalls, etc for the same
reason (it works, it just gets special-cased by everybody which is ugly).
  Passive FTP is commonly available, but not every client does it
decently.  It's often not tested very thoroughly since pretty much every
"real" FTP server prefers to use active FTP.

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