Re: [squid-users] Squid3: ftp gateway in accelerator mode

On Saturday 16 August 2003 17.09, Jim Flowers wrote:
> I admit I'm confused. I'm trying to set up an accelerator that
> will allow access to both http and ftp on an originserver via
> browser around a firewall.
>
> When I enter ftp://www.domain1.com in my (ie6) browser a query is
> sent to a.b.c.d on port 21 that is acked (tcpdump) but the browser
> displays a popup ftp Folder Error window saying 'a connection with
> the server cannot be established'. There is no attempt at a
> connection with e.f.g.h.

Squid is a HTTP proxy, not a FTP proxy.

What is possible is to set up http access to the content of the FTP
server via a redirector rewriting the accelerated URLs to ftp://, but
you can not connect to Squid using FTP.

Regards
Henrik

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