RE: FTP with Transparent Proxy

> > From: Jeremy Bro [SMTP:jeremybro@hotmail.com]
> >
> > like WS_FTP? If so...do you use login and does there have to be a
>special
> >
> > section in the ACL? currently WS_FTP does NOT work.
> >
> With what proxy? I've already said that squid is not
> an ftp proxy.

I understand that. My original question was "...what ftp proxy can work
with squid" and you replied with 'set up a client with support' which of
course caused me to reply with the question about clients. Now back to my
first question since the rest is irelevant. What proxy can coexist with
squid?

;-) loves the confusion of mass-email lists.

>
> What I was saying here is that the FTP protocol has no
> way of supporting this sort of proxy (proxy get in the
> typical ftp client is something completely different,
> a third party transfer). You need an extended client
> which uses some protocol extension to tell any proxy you
> use what it was trying to connect to, or you need whatever
> intercepts port 21 to insert this information into the
> command stream. (A server can, of course, use the SITE
> command for anything, including specifying the target of
> a proxied request.)
>
> HTTP proxies do have a mechanism for informing the proxy
> of this information and HTTP/1.1 clients and HTTP/1.1 aware
> clients will use a Host header even on requests that they
> don't expect to be proxied, allowing the proxy to get this
> information even if you intercept port 80 and redirect.
>

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Received on Mon Jun 07 1999 - 12:11:31 MDT