Monks, from home I happily use Net::FTP to connect to an FTP site over the public Internet. But from my company office, I need to access the FTP site via a firewall.

Net::Config describes firewall types 0 - 7, according the dialog supported. But my firewall does not match any of these documented types. At an interactive FTP session, online diagnostics show that the expected dialog is:

    USER username@hostname proxyusername
    PASS password
    ACCT proxypassword

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The USER formats supported by the current firewall types are:

    1: USER user@remote.host

    2: USER fwuser
       ...
       USER user@remote.host

    3 and 4:
       USER fwuser
       ...
       USER user

    5: USER user@fwuser@remote.site

    6: USER fwuser@remote.site
       ...
       USER user

    7: USER user@remote.host
       ...
       AUTH fwuser

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Should I politely request the author of Net::Config (Graham Barr) to implement this new type?

Should I (gulp!) extend the module to implement this myself? (OOPs -- I would not know where to start ...)

Is there any way to drive Net::FTP to bypass the firewall types in Net::Config?

I notice Net:FTP has an "authorize" method, which sounds useful for firewalls. I do not know if it will help me get access thru my new firewall type.

In reply to New FTP firewall type for Net::Config by Cuhulain

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