[Zope-dev] 2.7 series dropped PASV_FTP_PORTRANGE

[Brad Clements]

In the 2.6 series I submitted a patch to support specifying the range of tcp ports to use on 
the server for pasv ftp transfers.

I still need this functionality, but I see that the "environment variable hack" isn't in 
medusa/ftp_server.py

I thought perhaps something in zope.conf would specify this, but it seems not to be there.

In fact, I see no clean way to pass port range information from ZServer.FTPServer to 
medusa.ftp_server  (hence why we used an environment variable hack in the past)

For my use case, the pasv port range is always "near" the range used by the listening ftp 
daemon anyway, so a simple solution for me is to look at the control connection port and just 
find an open port that is "nearby".

However the better solution, I suppose, is to allow the port range to be specified in 
zope.conf.

But what's the best way (architecturally) to cleanly get this information into medusa's 
ftp_server.py module?




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