Re: [squid-users] Squid & FTP Cache

ons 2003-04-23 klockan 14.31 skrev ROUTIER Gilles:

> 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 but is
> there a nearest version which will take into account Proxy ftp ?

Squid is a HTTP proxy and have no intention of becoming anything else.

> So not, does there exist a means of encapsulating FTP in HTTP ?

Yes, by using a client who knows how to use HTTP proxies for fetching
ftp:// URLs, such as any standard web browser configured to use a proxy.

> So not yet, with which tool then to make cache ftp ?

There also exists some FTP proxies. Most are without caching however
(FTP is a very complex protocol to cache compared to HTTP, even if the
FTP specification is just 69 pages while the HTTP specification is
dazzling 176 pages (core protocol) + 34 pages (authentication) and much
more... this from the fact that HTTP is designed with caching in mind
but FTP is not.

Regards
Henrik

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