Re: [squid-users] ftp not working

> On Wednesday 03 July 2002 16.06, Snowy wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In Squid's online manual, it is clearly stated what Squid can do
> > and can't do. Therefore, if you want to use Squid in between a FTP
> > client, like IE, and a FTP server, you must make sure that both
> > ends understand HTTP. Squid proxy is not designed for other
> > arbitary conventional protocols like FTP, SMTP, etc.
>
> Yes, and this is NOT a reason to why IE has problems to use Squid for
> fetching ftp:// URLs.
>
> And no, both ends do not need to understand HTTP, only the client end
> needs to understand to use HTTP to talk to the configured proxy.

Yes, Henrik,

I have overlooked the 2nd part. Squid is capable of talking to many non-HTTP
servers, such as WAIS, Gopher, FTP etc.

Thanks for the clarifications.

Snowy
Received on Thu Jul 04 2002 - 02:38:48 MDT