FTP hangs on close

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Makhno wrote:
> >Yesterday I reported consistent hangings with urllib.urlretrieve - on
> >some FTP sites urlretrieve just hangs forever.
> 
> The client is probably waiting for a 'goodbye' message from the server,
> which, due to a botched server configuration (or maybe the admin's choice)
> is never sent, so the client waits indefinately.

   May be. Thanks. I'll try to look into it deeper...

Oleg.
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           Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.