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The people telling you this where have they found it is apparently illegal?
"... the standard here is Passive FTP. You can have Active as an adjunct to Passive, but to comply with the standard which is the law requires you to have Passive FTP - quite rightly so."
Anyway, my experience using WSFTP is that Passive transfers do still work, but very slowly. Using Active transfers, it works at the speed I was used to.
Am I right that Freeola changed this to improve security?
> The people telling you this where have they found it is apparently
> illegal?
Bloody hell!
Anyway, why would it be illegal? They're Freeola's servers and they can choose to protect them any way they want.
Are there any laws in the UK regarding web hosting?
> Thankfully, not many.
Problems do occur for people not in the UK as laws in other countries differ, but I have never heard of any law for FTP.
I still don't quite understand though. Freeola's new setup "requires" active transfers. Sure, I get good FTP performance when I use that setting. But why is it still possible to operate passive transfers? Its very slow when I do, but surely if its a matter of security, they shouldnt work at all?
My limited understanding of the difference is that with passive transfers, the client tells the server it wants a connection; with active transfers, its the other way round, which is presumably more secure from the server's point of view.
I'll see if I can get an answer for this the start of next week.