Re: [squid-users] ftp reverse proxing

From: Squid Support (Henrik Nordstrom) <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 10:52:55 +0200

On Tuesday 09 April 2002 06:41, czeritis@agl.com.au wrote:

> This situation is fine for me however what I would like to know is
> if it can perform this service in reverse (ie accelerator mode). I
> have an FTP server running behind a firewall and Squid installed in
> a webserver in the our DMZ. I have Squid running in accelerator
> mode to proxy/cache HTPP I would like external clients to connect
> (via http if necessary) to Squid and have their requests relayed
> (via ftp) to the real ftp server.

Yes. Just have a redirector rewriting the accelerated HTTP requests
to ftp://.. or buy a eMARA..

> Ideally it would be nice if the clients could connect to Squid
> using FTP - i.e. a completly transperant proxy however im assuming
> that this is not possible with Squid - would this be correct?

Correct. Squid is a HTTP proxy.

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Received on Tue Apr 09 2002 - 03:19:19 MDT

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