Re: [squid-users] FTP problems

mån 2003-03-03 klockan 14.53 skrev Sander Winkel:
> I have a few problems with ftp through the proxy.
>
> The first one is that the internal ftp icons of squid doesn't load, I see
> only red crosses.
> The rights are set wel and the icon directive is right in squid.conf

Then your browser does not know how to find your Squid server by it's
visible_name. (see the HTML source of a FTP directory listing..)

> The second is that ftp is very slow, even if I use a fast FTP server.

Maybe the IP address of your Squid server is not registered properly in
DNS. This can give significant delays in logging in to the FTP server
which will be very noticeable when using a HTTP proxy for ftp:// URLs.

Also, keep in mind that due to the stateless nature of requesting ftp://
URLs via HTTP the FTP connection is reopened on each request.

> The third is that I can only ftp via a browser if I give a logonname and
> password with the url, a ftp client doesn't work for me.
> I get the message "connection refused"

Squid is a HTTP proxy which can request mosly any kind of URL when
requested by HTTP clients such as web browsers. It will not work as a
FTP proxy for FTP clients. For FTP clients you need a FTP proxy.

-- 
Henrik Nordstrom <hno@squid-cache.org>
MARA Systems AB, Sweden