Re: [squid-users] ftp "put" not working in Squid/2.4.STABLE7?

Hi Henrik,

> When a browser is configured to use a proxy via the normal proxy
> settings, it expects to find a HTTP proxy there. This HTTP proxy then
> acts as a gateway to ftp:// and gopher:// URL spaces, translating HTTP
> to/from the requested url protocol.
>
> Meaning, when you request a ftp:// url in a browser configured to use a
> proxy then the browser sends a GET HTTP request for that URL to your
> proxy. Similarily for uploading, the browser sends a PUT HTTP requests
> to the proxy.

Thanks a lot for the further explanation - this seems to explain why the
ftp username and password seem to need to be in the URL itself
(I believe that the ftp client is supposed to prompt you for the password
if you omit it - but instead I'm just getting a error message returned
from squid.)

BTW: I've also found that "curl" does ftp "put" correctly via Squid proxy

Cheers,
Brendan
Received on Thu Jan 16 2003 - 17:51:59 MST