Suresh Ramasubramanian forced the electrons to say:
> IIRC, if your ftp client understands PASV (passive ftp / ftp -p) then squid
> will proxy ftp requests for ftp clients as well.
No. Squid takes _only_ HTTP requests on the server side. It indeed does
FTP on the client side. So, if you have to use squid, the FTP client
should be able to generate a request like:
GET ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/kernel HTTP/1.0
which, squid will translate to a combination of FTP commands (USER,
PASS, PORT/PASV, LIST) and pass back the output to the requesting client
(it does a bit of HTML formatting of directory listings also).
FTP only clients (ncftp) cannot/will not do the GET request. Lynx/netscape
will, since they are basically web browsers and generating this sort of
requests is routine for them.
All said, I think gftp (GNOME FTP client) can be used with an HTTP proxy.
Binand
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