Re: [squid-users] Squid & FTP Cache

From: <bscott@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:41:03 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, at 2:31pm, gilles.routier@cicoa.cnamts.fr wrote:
> I would like to use Squid to make cache through customers ftp.
> I believe that it is not possible because squid is a http proxy ...

  You can run FTP through an HTTP proxy. The client just requests an FTP
URL instead of an HTTP URL. Squid supports this and will cache FTP objects.
The FTP client does, of course, have to support HTTP proxy.

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Ben Scott <bscott@ntisys.com>
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