[Wylug-help] FTP Proxy Server

[James Holden]

Mike Banahan wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 05:16:35PM +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>
>Ah, yes I do just use it as a proxy for Mozilla and browsers. Do they only
>talk HTTP to the proxy even when using a ftp: URL? I hadn't thought
>of that when I just pressed 'reply'.
>
>Mike
>
>
Correct. There's scope withing the HTTP spec to allow ftp transfers to
be requested, just like you can use 'wget' to retrieve
ftp://user@host/path type URLs. This is what squid supports. If you just
want to proxy FTP requests from browsers then squid will do just fine.
If you want to upload files with something like ws-ftp then squid isn't
what you're looking for.


James