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Why do I get error "blocking call cancelled" with FTP?

This can happen when you are behind a firewall or are running a personal firewall like Black Ice Defender or ZoneAlarm.

To fix this, go into your FTP program settings and find the setting for "Passive Mode" or "PASV Mode". If it is turned on, turn it off. If it is off, turn it on.

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user -at- example.com
19-Dec-2003 15:07
I was having the same problem.  Try changing the Passive Transfer
checkbox on the advanced tab of the connection.  If it's checked,
uncheck it and vice versa.  It worked for me.

anonymous -at- example.com
01-May-2008 19:51
If you are using Windows command line ftp, there is no PASV or Passive
command. However, you can send arbitrary commands to the server by using
the 'literal' command.

In my experiments, a unix/linux server would respond favorably to a
'PASV ON" command (preceded by the 'literal' command). A Microsoft FTP
server didn't like the extra argument, but was happy with simply 'PASV'.

e.g.,

ftp> literal PASV

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