From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:36:08 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add note about ftplib defaulting to passive mode.
X-Git-Tag: v2.1a1~266
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=da91f227ec82607edce2d56d5aa41019b1417eb7;p=python

Add note about ftplib defaulting to passive mode.
---

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0ccf8baeac..2b8e38dc7f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -97,6 +97,13 @@ Core language, builtins, and interpreter
 
 Standard library
 
+- The ftplib module now defaults to passive mode, which is deemed a
+  more useful default given that clients are often inside firewalls
+  these days.  Note that this could break if ftplib is used to connect
+  to a *server* that is inside a firewall, from outside; this is
+  expected to be a very rare situation.  To fix that, you can call
+  ftp.set_pasv(0).
+
 - The module site now treats .pth files not only for path configuration,
   but also supports extensions to the initialization code: Lines starting
   with import are executed.