295400 - FTP connection attempt timeout should be configurable

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Networking: FTP, defect)

Description

[Timwi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

I can't connect to an FTP through Firefox because the server is slow. I keep
getting the message "The operation times out when attempting to contact
<domainname>."

I know the server works because other (more patient) FTP clients can connect to
it without problems.

There appears to be a network.ftp.idleConnectionTimeout setting in about:config,
but it doesn't seem to have an effect on this. I set it to 50 minutes, but the
above error message appears much faster. I assume it only kicks in after the
connection is actually established.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Josh Birnbaum]

->Networking:FTP

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Timwi]

This is still a problem. I understand it isn't easy to reproduce because you
need a slow FTP server to do so, but it's still a problem...

Comment 4

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

mass reassigning to nobody.

Comment 5

[benc]

The "idle" timeout is for existing connections, not creating connections.

The timeout time is based on your system default. I *think* windows has a line command, if you try the same thing (ftp 127.0.0.2), it should return a similar looking error at about the same delay.

-> NEW, but I don't know if we will ever do anything about this. IMHO, this should be set at the system level.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to benc from comment #5)
> -> NEW, but I don't know if we will ever do anything about this. IMHO, this
> should be set at the system level.

found no related bugs

Comment 7

[Patrick McManus [:mcmanus]]

only critical ftp fixes now