Re: [squid-users] R: [squid-users] How use squid to be a ftp proxy?

As said Squid is only a HTTP proxy. As such it can accept requests from
HTTP clients requesting various URL's including http://, ftp:// and
gopher:// if the HTTP client is configured to use it as a proxy.

If you need a proxy for a FTP client then you need a FTP proxy. There is
at least three different FTP proxies available on the net:

* TIS FWTK ftp-gw
* SuSe proxy suite <http://www.suse.com/en/support/proxy_suite/>
* frox <http://frox.sourceforge.net/>

plus a number of commercial ones..

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker
Riccardo Gentilucci wrote:
> 
> Thanks Martin, i'm making some expierences about this problem, if i've some
> results, i let the community know!!
> 
> Best RGDS
> 
> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: Martin A. Brooks [mailto:martin@hinterlands.org]
> Inviato: lunedi 25 giugno 2001 22.08
> A: Riccardo Gentilucci; squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Oggetto: Re: [squid-users] How use squid to be a ftp proxy?
> 
> At 14:32 25/06/01 +0200, Riccardo Gentilucci wrote:
> >Hello everybody, i want to understand if i can use squid as a ftp proxy.
> 
> The answer is "kinda".
> 
> Squid can act as a proxy for HTTP request for FTP resources.  So, for
> example, someone typing ftp://ftp.squid-cache.org into their browser window
> would get what they expect.
> 
> Few, if any, regular FTP clients, like Cute FTP and Leech FTP,  can use
> Squid as an FTP proxy as they do not make proxy requests in a format that
> Squid can interpret.
> 
> This is a eminently solvable issue but I've yet to see an FTP client that
> can support a HTTP proxy directly.  I'm sure there is one somewhere, though.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Martin A. Brooks
> ------------------------------------------------------
> You're just jealous because the little voices are talking to /me/.