Sherman Gregory tapped out this message on 6/17/2003 5:53 PM >I thought that too, but in OS X, I do not see a way to do that. I >think that I could do that in OS 9, but that seems to be missing from >the OS X Internet preferences. There is probably a .xml file >somewhere with this in it, but nothing that I have seen in the GUI. Networking> Proxy> FTP> Use passive mode. Any browser should be able to download from an ftp:// named URL.