Nick Kew wrote: > > That correction, in either http or ftp, is the business of the origin server, > not the proxy. For a proxy to issue it would be deeply broken.
Not really. Consider the semantics of FTP. FTP can serve a 'directory' with LIST or NLST, but I'd only want that to be in response to /dir1/, not /dir1 since the later is pretty ambiguous. But FTP has no concept of redirects, so your assertion that the FTP origin server is responsible for a redirect is silly. It doesn't follow web URI conventions, so 'fitting' an FTP server into the role of a URI resource is the job of the FTP client, or the HTTP proxy layer for an HTTP client. I'd personally agree that if we know /dir1 is a directory resource, we should probably teach mod_proxy_ftp to provide the /dir1/ redirect.
