On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Elvis Presley wrote: > Can you point me to material describing Squid as an > FTP proxy?
Squid is not an FTP proxy. > I'm not sure 'proxy' is even the right term. How does > squid translate the domain name of the ftp server, if > the external client has already done it? I assume > squid listens to the ftp ports and accepts connections > on behalf of internal (ftp) servers. No. Squid is not a FTP proxy. Squid can fetch ftp:// URLs requested by HTTP clients, but it still is not a FTP proxy. > Again, I am interested in forward and reverse roles. > > Does squid ftp-proxy support 'active' and 'passive' > ftp connections? Squid uses primarily passive FTP when retreiving ftp:// URLs, but automatically falls back on active or even default mode FTP if passive is not available. > Are there special purpose(=non-squid) "proxies" for > ftp? There is plenty of FTP proxies. > Can ftp even be fully(=transparently) proxied? Ftp can be transparently proxied. See frox. fully proxied is however non-transparent. It is not correct to say that transparent interception is full proxying. transparent interception is a very ugly hack violating fundamental TCP/IP standards. SOCKS is also an interesting topic in discussions like this. Regards Henrik
