1.7.7 wput fails to connect to FTP server

[Francois Botha]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Francois Botha
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to upload a file to an FTP server with wput.
>
> I execute this command:
>
> wput test.txt ftp://ftp.mozilla.org
>
> I know I don't have write permissions to mozilla.org (I'm using it
> only for illustration purposes).
>
> But wput can't even connect to the server, and doesn't even get to the
> authentication stage. This is my output:
> $ wput test.txt  ftp://ftp.mozilla.org
> --11:47:30-- `test.txt'
>    => ftp://anonymous:xxxxx@63.245.208.138:21/test.txt
> Connecting to 63.245.208.138:21... failed!
> Waiting 10 seconds... Connecting to 63.245.208.138:21... failed!
> Waiting 10 seconds...
>
> I see this has been reported way back too:
> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2007-12/msg00468.html

Ok, I got somebody on the IRC channel to confirm the problem on their
side. So it's not my stupidity. What other info do you need to log
this bug? Is this even the right forum to log bugs for wput?

thanks,
Francois

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