Re: [SQU] Squid is NOT a FTP proxy .. now what ?

Nope.

If you try to use an ftp client (not a browser proxying through Squid),
proxied or otherwise, with Squid it will not work. That means a real
ftp client, like ncftp, cuteftp, etc. Browsers, when configured to use
a proxy will talk the http, not ftp, protocol to the proxy. So, Squid
works.

Squid knows how to talk to an ftp server, but not how to talk to an ftp
client. So, as Robert said, Squid doesn't do client side ftp.

You're thinking of your browser as an ftp client (and it can be) but in
the context of proxying, it acts as an http client to an http proxy that
just happens to know how to talk to an FTP server.

More clear now?

Adam Lang wrote:

> Ah, I think I get it.
>
> If I'm on a Webpage and I click a link to download a file that is located on
> an ftp server, it will work. If I actually try to go to an FTP site, it
> doesn't.
>
> Correct?
>
> Adam Lang
> Systems Engineer
> Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
> http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
> To: "Mike Egglestone" <mike_egglestone@fc.schdist57.bc.ca>;
> <squid-users@ircache.net>
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 3:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [SQU] Squid is NOT a FTP proxy .. now what ?
>
>
>
>> What I mean is that ftp clients cannot connect via Squid. Squid can use
>> FTP to retrieve URL's for HTTP clients though.
>>
>> Squid will cache anything that goes thru it (ftp caching is controlled
>> via some squid.conf settings) according to it's heuristics.
>>
>> Rob
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Mike Egglestone" <mike_egglestone@fc.schdist57.bc.ca>
>> To: <squid-users@ircache.net>
>> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 6:18 PM
>> Subject: Re: [SQU] Squid is NOT a FTP proxy .. now what ?
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>> Adam,
>>>> Squid _does not support client side FTP_.
>>>>
>>>> Rob
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi..
>>> What do you mean by "client side FTP"
>>> Does this mean that squid won't cache an ftp web page....?
>>> ex....ftp://ftp.somedomain.com
>>> but squid will cache a downloaded file from ftp... right?
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
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