Re: [squid-users] ftp thru squid

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Hendrik Voigtländer wrote:

> For a single file: absolutely. Now that you mention it...
> But mirroring a site or a part of it can be a bit tricky.

Mirroring of ftp using wget via a HTTP proxy also works, just as it does
for mirroring http:// sites.. the drawback is that there will be a lot of
index.html files created with the directory listings returned by the
proxy.

> What I never understood: Why the h*** ist the wget-Variable http_proxy in
> lower case?

Ask CERN who wrote the original libwww..

For ftp the variable is ftp_proxy

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Aug 25 2004 - 04:32:20 MDT