RE: [SQU] Squid & FTP

so what is one to do?

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin A. Brooks [mailto:martin@hinterlands.org]
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 3:35 AM
To: Freaked Personality; Squid Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: [SQU] Squid & FTP

Hi

>A customer of ours is using Squid (2.3) and browsing works fine. However
>if he fills in the proxy on his ftp clients none of them are able to
>connect. With internet explorer we can logon to a ftp site however it
>gives a warning saying that it's read access only and that we won't be
>able to upload/rename/move files.
>
>Any quick way to fix this? We would like him to have full ftp access
>through the proxy since we don't want to open a gateway.

This question has been asked about 6 times in the past 2 weeks.

Squid is NOT a real FTP proxy. It merely converts FTP directory listings
into a browser friendly format.
Most (all?) FTP clients (CuteFTP, LeechFTP etc) CANNOT use Squid as an FTP
proxy.

Regards

Martin A. Brooks
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