Re: IE 5 FTP & FrontPage problems with Squid

Aram Mirzadeh wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I'm having a lot of problems with squid 2.2 and FTP from almost any program.
> Here is a list of applications and the results:
>
> IE 5 - FTP --
> An error occurred opening that folder on the FTP Server. Make sure you
> have permission to access that folder.
> Details:
> 200 Type set to A.
> 500 Illegal PORT Command

According to the IE5 release notes, FTP through http proxies is a
problem.

> Netscape 4.07
>
> File downloads normally until 99% is reached. At that point the system
> just sits there. After about 30 seconds I hit the cancel key, and click on
> the downloaded file again, and it will download to my machine extremely fast
> [I'm assuming from cache]. And it will finish.

Leave it sit longer and see what happens. Try disabling async-io if you
have it enabled, or enabling it if you have it disabled. I'd be curious
as to the results.

> FrontPage 98
>
> After it starts transferring files....
> There was an error during the transfer of the files. The error message
> from the remote machine was:
> Illegal PORT Command

See comment above on IE5

>
> Here is my configuration, it's running on a linux 2.2.5 [redhat-6]. All
> HTTP requests are working great.
>
> http_port 3128
> icp_port 3130
> maximum_object_size 40960 KB
> cache_dir /var/spool/cache 100 16 256
> cache_access_log /var/log/squid/access.log
> cache_log /var/log/squid/cache.log
> ftp_user squid@nowhere.com
> ftp_list_width 32
> cache_dns_program /usr/bin/dnsserver
> dns_children 5
> dns_nameservers none
> #Defaults:
> acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
> acl manager proto cache_object
> acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
> acl SSL_ports port 443 563 1556
> acl Safe_ports port 80 21 443 563 70 210 1025-65535
> acl CONNECT method CONNECT
> acl FTP proto FTP
> always_direct allow FTP
> #Default configuration:
> http_access allow manager localhost
> http_access deny manager
> http_access deny !Safe_ports
> http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
> icp_access allow all
> miss_access allow all
Received on Mon Aug 02 1999 - 21:56:07 MDT