RE: [SQU] Squid and FTP

At 09:56 AM 2/14/01 +0000, Bruno Guerreiro wrote:
>Hi.
>Ok, my fault.
>(Mental note: Work hard on English)
>What I meant it that if a file is for example, 1 MB long, or any size for
>that matter, the downloads reaches 1 MB and nada, niente... it just stays
>there, not finishing the download.

This resembles the behavior I've seen with another site. At the time I got
around it by configuring "half_closed_clients off". I do not know if it
just masked the problem and if it works for you. I downloaded the file
successfully (Netscape 4.7x & Squid-stable5 & no parent cache)

Marc

> If I go to IE Temporary folder, or the
>directory where I selected to save the file in Netscape, the file is
>complete and I can even copy the file to another place and use it.
>I tried with diferent versions of IE.
>If the download is made thru a MS Proxy, it works just fine.
>It's at random locations, but when a file does finish at first try, it will
>always stall.
>Could you please try this one?
>ftp://www.statel.net/pub/statel/common/statelhub.exe
>
>In this case it reaches the 2.62 MB, acording to IE, and then just stays
>there.
>I forgot to mention that i'm using an MS Proxy as a parent.
>
>Tanx in advance.
>
>Regards,
>
>Bruno Guerreiro
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:hno@hem.passagen.se]
>Sent: Terça-feira, 13 de Fevereiro de 2001 21:21
>To: Bruno Guerreiro
>Cc: squid-users@ircache.net
>Subject: Re: [SQU] Squid and FTP
>
>
>The forum is the correct one. squid-users is for questions around Squid.
>
>I see no problem in downloads stopping exactly at the end, so I presume
>that you mean that the downloads gets aborted just before the end?
>
>Does it always happens for the same files, or is the problem
>itermettent?
>
>If it always happens, do you have a URL to one such file?
>
>--
>Henrik Nordstrom
>Squid hacker
>
>
>Bruno Guerreiro wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> > I know that SQUID isn't a FTP proxy.
> > But I also know that one can use it with IE or Netscape to connect to FTP
> > sites, so I usually do it.
> > My problem is that sometimes when I try to get files from an FTP server ,
> > the downloads stops exactly at the end. This happens with IE and Netscape.
> > If I use CuteFTP, thru a SOCKS server, it works just fine.
> > I'm using Squid2.3STABLE4
> > Any ideas?
> > Tanx in advance.
> >
> > P.S. I hope I'm not making the wrong question in the wrong place
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > Bruno Guerreiro
> >
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