Re: ftp proxy-server

The transparent approach does not make sense I think.

There are several FTP proxy softwares available:
a) TIS Firewall Toolkit ftp-gw
b) The FTP proxy in SuSe proxy suite

However, to my knowledge none rewrites FTP into HTTP for caching by a
HTTP proxy.. doing so is not at all trivial as the FTP protocol is
farily complex, and not really well suited for caching due to several
ambiguities in state tracking.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker
Thomas.Hansen.tmh./CPH@manbw.dk wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am a very happy squid user, but have one problem. Some of my users
> need to use the FTP program ws_ftp. In here you can setup a true ftp
> proxy server, it cannot be a squid, because it translate ftp into http,
> which is what the SQUID FAQ says. Another solution could be, according
> to ws_ftp, to use a transparent proxy:
>         All You have to do is to force your router to reflect FTP
> requests (port 21)
>               to a host running tproxyd (or use a firewall to do that) -
> that's easy. Also You
>               need to modify tproxyd to accept, rewrite and forward FTP
> requests
>               (transformed into HTTP) to the Squid (or any other cache
> proxy).
> 
> I cannot do that, so my firewall/router administrator says.
> 
> Any idea's?
> 
> Thomas
> tmh@manbw.dk