Re: How to config WS-ftp (or other ftp) for Squid

From: <ishort@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 16:26:15 +0000

> } Any ideas?
>
> Can't be done. Squid is a http proxy which also handles the fact that
> people proxy ftp connections through http. WS Ftp doesn't speak http so
> you are sunk.

Hmm... How does Netscape access ftp sites then?

'Scuse the ignorance...
 
> It could in theory be done by writing an ftp proxy which builds ftp
> requests into http requests, but that is serious work.
 

Regards,

Irvine Short

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