We don't yet support using FTP proxies. The problem is that many (if
not all, I don't know) FTP proxies return HTML rather than normal FTP
responses. This causes us a problem for parsing that HTML since it
can be totally different for each proxy.
Sterling
> Hi, I once more tried to use the ftp stuff from Rebol. I'm using a dialup
> connection. For this I connected to the internet and tried to read the root
> directory of my ftp server, which gave the following error:
>
> >> read ftp://openip.org
> connecting to: openip.org
> ** User Error: Server error: tcp 500 Bad username format - format is
> user@host:port.
> ** Where: read ftp://openip.org
>
> I tried all kind of combinations of user:psw@host etc. with and without the
> port no success. I'm using an FTP proxy and have configured in the
> following way:
>
> system/schemes/ftp/proxy/host: "localhost"
> system/schemes/ftp/proxy/port-id: 21
> system/schemes/ftp/proxy/type: 'generic
>
> I can see that a ftp session is established but nothing happens. Any idea
> where the problem is?
>
> Robert M. Muench, Karlsruhe, Germany
> ==> ask for PGP public-key <==
>
> When do you want to reboot today?
>
> Use the free portable GUI Library
> OpenAmulet from http://www.openip.org
>
>
