Re: [squid-users] FTP upload.

From: Kinkie <kinkie-squid@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:30:55 +0100

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 15:11 +0100, Christoph Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:51:24AM -0200, Renato Policani wrote:
> > How can I do allow ftp upload in squid ?
>
> As Squid is not an FTP proxy (only HTTP) you can only use dirty
> workarounds. The way we currently do it is allowing CONNECT requests on
> all ports (because of the high-ports) for specific users and specific
> destination IPs. This tunnels the whole FTP session through the
> "CONNECT" method transparently so you need an FTP client that is
> CONNECT-capable. The only client that I found was the "SmartFTP"
> shareware.

Why? AFAIK squid correctly translates HTTP "PUT" requests into the
correct series of FTP operations.
The "lftp" software for unix-like systems supports natively working with
an http-ftp gateway such as squid, without needing any "dirty"
workarounds.

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Kinkie <kinkie-squid@kinkie.it>
Received on Fri Jan 07 2005 - 08:30:58 MST

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