ftplib: Software caused connection abort, how I solved it

2011-06-12 Thread Mad Sweeney
My program polls FTP servers at intervals for jobs to process. Its running as a service on Windows server 2000 or 2003 :-(. About 13% of times the retrbinary and less often the nlst calls would fail with "Software caused connection abort". I could find no relevant solution on the intertubes. I a

ftplib: Software caused connection abort, how I solved it

2011-06-14 Thread Mad Sweeney
My program polls FTP servers at intervals for jobs to process. Its running as a service on Windows server 2000 or 2003 :-(. About 13% of times the retrbinary and less often the nlst calls would fail with "Software caused connection abort". I could find no relevant solution on the intertubes. I a