Re: [squid-users] ftp not working

On Wednesday 03 July 2002 16.06, Snowy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In Squid's online manual, it is clearly stated what Squid can do
> and can't do. Therefore, if you want to use Squid in between a FTP
> client, like IE, and a FTP server, you must make sure that both
> ends understand HTTP. Squid proxy is not designed for other
> arbitary conventional protocols like FTP, SMTP, etc.

Yes, and this is NOT a reason to why IE has problems to use Squid for
fetching ftp:// URLs.

And no, both ends do not need to understand HTTP, only the client end
needs to understand to use HTTP to talk to the configured proxy.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Jul 04 2002 - 02:27:01 MDT