bypassing blocked ftp

Clevershark's option looks good, but if that doesn't work for you, maybe http://www.web-ftp.org/ will. It looks a little more complicated in that you download and run an app, but it is an ftp client that works over the http protocol.

clevershark, I can use Web2FTP to browse the server and download smaller files but it just hangs when I try to download my file. I think the file's too big (although it's only 8M and their FAQ says they can handle up to 50). drats. Otherwise a great suggestion. JJ, web-ftp is a CGI script to run off a server that you control; your server connects to the FTP server you're interested in, then you connect to your server via http. alas, that won't work for me.

The non-scalable solution would be to say what file it is and hope someone will put it up on their web space and give you a link.

I solved it by something along smackfu's lines: I emailed a friend who downloaded the file then emailed it to me. For future reference, both clevershark's web2ftp and http://www.net2ftp.com/index.php, which I discovered on my own and which has a more polished UI, were able to download larger files from other ftp servers but not the one I wanted (ftp.linksys.com). So I'll blame the server. Thanks.