Shanker Balan forced the electrons to say:
> So... squid supports only passive FTP. Or should it be - FTP
> clients that support passive FTP?
I don't know what sort of FTP squid supports (most likely passive FTP),
but the drawback is that squid can act only as an FTP client, talking
to FTP servers. Squid cannot act as an FTP server as such. So, when an
FTP aware HTTP client sends a request like:
GET ftp://ftp.somesite.com/path/to/something/interesting HTTP/1.0
squid will translate that into the FTP version: The sequence of USER,
PASS, PASV/PORT and RETR (also taking care of all the extra FTP stuff -
the second data connection etc.).
The point I was trying to make was that FTP only clients cannot work with
squid. So, you can set ftp_proxy in lynx/netscape to a squid server and
retrieve software from the net via FTP happily, but you cannot do that
from gftp (the only FTP client I know that supports FTP proxies).
Binand
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