[NET-288] FTP should support IPv6

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.2
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Derek Morr
• Created: 04/Aug/09 00:28
• Updated: 15/Oct/10 09:20
• Resolved: 08/Mar/10 09:34

Description

The FTP module does not support FTP over IPv6, defined in RFC 2428.

I've written a patch to add support for the EPRT and EPSV commands to the FTP class, and modifed the FTPClient class to try them before falling back to PORT and PASV. This is common behavior in many FTP clients.