https://souravbadami.com/tags/ftplib/ Recent content in ftplib on Sourav Badami Hugo -- gohugo.io en-US Wed, 15 Nov 2017 02:31:13 +0530 https://souravbadami.com/the-requested-address-is-not-valid-in-its-context/ Wed, 15 Nov 2017 02:31:13 +0530 https://souravbadami.com/the-requested-address-is-not-valid-in-its-context/ facing this with Python 2.7 and ftplib? i won’t waste your time; let’s fix it. the error shows up when passive mode returns an address your client can’t route to. ftplib trusts that address; your network doesn’t. so we stop trusting it — subclass FTP_TLS, keep the port from makepasv, and force the host you already connected to. import ftplib class FTP_TLS_UNROUTABLE_HOST(ftplib.FTP_TLS, object): def makepasv(self): _, port = super(FTP_TLS_UNROUTABLE_HOST, self).makepasv() return self.