Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>  wrote:
 > So how does one specify passive FTP or a proxy server for it?

>From the manpage:

     -p        Enable passive mode operation for use behind connection filter-
               ing firewalls.

and in the ENVIRONMENT section:

     ftp_proxy      URL of FTP proxy to use when making FTP URL requests (if
                    not defined, use the standard ftp protocol).

     http_proxy     URL of HTTP proxy to use when making HTTP URL requests.