[Wylug-help] FTP Proxy Server

[James Holden]

David Pashley wrote:

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>On Wednesday 16 October 2002 3:48 pm, Darren Watson wrote:
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>>Hi
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>>Can anyone recommend a reliable ftp proxy server? Ideally it would be able
>>to support the same functions as winproxy. It needs to be able to work with
>>Windows FTP clients such as SW-FTP Pro.
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>>Many Thanks
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>>Darren
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>Rumour has it that squid will work as an ftp proxy, but I've never tried it.
>It may also be a bit of an overkill for just ftp proxying.
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Squid won't work as an ftp proxy in the way being asking for here. It'll
proxy ftp get requests from web browsers, but that's about it. It most
specifically will *not* work with software such as WS-FTP. You might
look into a Socks server though. I haven't any experience with Socks
though. Also, I have a suspicion that wu-ftpd will do proxying, but I
might be mistaken. Any reason why you can't use some form of NAT and set
the clients to use passive mode?


James