On Fri, Sep 29, 2000, the greycells of Suresh Ramasubramanian expressed:

> Binand Raj S rearranged electrons thusly:
> 
> > Squid can proxy FTP only for web browsers that do FTP (lynx, netscape
> > etc.).  It cannot proxy for FTP clients, notably ncftp. The client has
> > to do an HTTP request, to use squid.
>  
>  IIRC, if your ftp client understands PASV (passive ftp / ftp -p) then squid
>  will proxy ftp requests for ftp clients as well.
>  
> > ftp://ftp.bombay.retortsoft.com/pub/Binand/TARGZ/ftpproxy-1.0.1.tar.gz.
> 
> that being the standard ftpproxy - SuSE has improved it quite a bit.  I suggest
> you check it out if you have a SuSE box somewhere.

Not necessarily, ftpproxy also runs on RHL.
SuSE has also added support for Transparent Proxy, but it is experimental.
Worked fine on my RHL 6.2 box.

--Amarendra :)

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