Re: Broken FTP's with IE5

From: Joe Rhett <jrhett@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 13:09:34 -0800

They mean FTP proxies, as opposed to FTP CONNECT proxies ala web proxies.

It's probably the same javascript .pac parsing bug as with IE4.

> In the release notes for IE5, it states that web style FTP does not work
> with FTP proxies - they bypass any settings you have for ftp proxies. You
> may wish to read through this.
>
> The workaround is to turn off web based FTP.
>
> Annoying, I know, but that's they way they're doing it...
>
> Reuben
>
>
> At Tuesday 30/03/99 03:24 PM +0100, Pedro Ribeiro wrote:
> >After i'v installed the new IE5 all my FTP's thru proxy are broken.
> >It seems that M$ was screwed something ...
> >Does anyone knows here is the problem ??
> >I'm just seeing that all the people will complain about the proxy not about
> >IE5 ... so ... probably we have to make some hacking in squid to make it
> >works.
> >
> >TIA.
> >
> >[]---------------------------------------------------------------[]
> > Pedro Ribeiro
> > Online: http://www.isel.pt/~pribeiro/
> > IRC(PTnet) Nick: PAntMaR
> > e-Mail: Personal: pribeiro@isel.pt
> > Admin: admin@isel.pt
> >[]---------------------------------------------------------------[]
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Reuben Farrelly Sunbury, VIC 3429, Australia
> reuben@mira.net
> "The only reason people get lost in thought is because
> it's unfamiliar territory." - Claude Marcotte

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Received on Wed Mar 31 1999 - 14:00:17 MST

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