Hello Browsers configured to use a forward proxy will send requests for FTP resources via the proxy as HTTP requests with URIs containing "ftp" as the scheme name, e.g. "ftp://ftp.someserver.com/somefile.txt";.
Some proxies on seeing these requests will download the selected resource using FTP and return it to the browser via HTTP. Does ATS do this? If the proxy is configured to chain on to another upstream proxy, the first proxy simply forwards the HTTP request containing the FTP URI to the second proxy; it is the responsibility of the last proxy in the chain to perform the FTP-to-HTTP conversion. Does ATS do this, i.e. forward FTP URIs when configured to use an upstream proxy? Assuming the answer to both questions is no, how would I add this functionality via a plug-in? Does ATS call HTTP plug-ins for HTTP requests containing FTP URIs? Or would I need to implement a (non-HTTP) protocol plug-in? Is there already a plug-in available that does this? Many thanks, Rob Maidment
