CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPSV can now be set to FALSE to prevent libcurl from

attempting to use EPSV before the standard PASV.

lib/ftp.c

@@ -812,7 +812,7 @@ ftp_pasv_verbose(struct connectdata *conn,
 #ifdef HAVE_INET_NTOA_R
   char ntoa_buf[64];
 #endif
-  char hostent_buf[8192];
+  char hostent_buf[9000];
 
 #if defined(HAVE_INET_ADDR)
   in_addr_t address;
@@ -824,12 +824,19 @@ ftp_pasv_verbose(struct connectdata *conn,
 # ifdef HAVE_GETHOSTBYADDR_R
 
 #  ifdef HAVE_GETHOSTBYADDR_R_5
-  /* AIX, Digital Unix style:
+  /* AIX, Digital Unix (OSF1, Tru64) style:
      extern int gethostbyaddr_r(char *addr, size_t len, int type,
      struct hostent *htent, struct hostent_data *ht_data); */
 
   /* Fred Noz helped me try this out, now it at least compiles! */
 
+  /* Bjorn Reese (November 28 2001):
+     The Tru64 man page on gethostbyaddr_r() says that
+     the hostent struct must be filled with zeroes before the call to
+     gethostbyaddr_r(). */
+
+  memset(hostent_buf, 0, sizeof(struct hostent));
+
   if(gethostbyaddr_r((char *) &address,
                      sizeof(address), AF_INET,
                      (struct hostent *)hostent_buf,
@@ -1297,7 +1304,8 @@ CURLcode ftp_use_pasv(struct connectdata *conn)
   char newhost[48];
   char *newhostp=NULL;
   
-  for (modeoff = 0; mode[modeoff]; modeoff++) {
+  for (modeoff = (data->set.ftp_use_epsv?0:1);
+       mode[modeoff]; modeoff++) {
     result = Curl_ftpsendf(conn, mode[modeoff]);
     if(result)
       return result;

lib/url.c

@@ -245,6 +245,7 @@ CURLcode Curl_open(struct SessionHandle **curl)
   data->state.current_speed = -1; /* init to negative == impossible */
 
   data->set.httpreq = HTTPREQ_GET; /* Default HTTP request */
+  data->set.ftp_use_epsv = TRUE;   /* FTP defaults to EPSV operations */
 
   /* make libcurl quiet by default: */
   data->set.hide_progress = TRUE;  /* CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS changes these */
@@ -523,6 +524,11 @@ CURLcode Curl_setopt(struct SessionHandle *data, CURLoption option, ...)
     data->set.ftpport = va_arg(param, char *);
     data->set.ftp_use_port = data->set.ftpport?1:0;
     break;
+
+  case CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPSV:
+    data->set.ftp_use_epsv = va_arg(param, long)?TRUE:FALSE;
+    break;
+
   case CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER:
     /*
      * Set a list with HTTP headers to use (or replace internals with)

lib/urldata.h

@@ -567,6 +567,7 @@ struct UserDefined {
   bool reuse_forbid;     /* forbidden to be reused, close after use */
   bool reuse_fresh;      /* do not re-use an existing connection  */
   bool expect100header;  /* TRUE if we added Expect: 100-continue */
+  bool ftp_use_epsv;     /* if EPSV is to be attempted or not */
 };
 
 /*