Re: [squid-users] Squid and IE6 FTP problems

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 08:40:26PM +0200, Becskei Robert wrote:
> I'm having problems when I want to use ftp with Internet Explorer 6 (
> strangely Firefox works, but unfortunately 80% of our company still use IE6,
> so I gotta solve this somehow).
>
> The error I get when I open a ftp site(with Internet Explorer 6) is :
>
> Details :
> 200 Switching to ASCII mode.
> 500 Illegal PORT command.
> 500 Unknown command.

Sounds like your "browser" is trying active FTP. Go into the settings
and tick the box for "passive FTP". Perhaps this is the solution.

If the FTP server really does not know about the PORT command then it's
truly b0rked.

 Christoph

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