My experience with FTPing with a browser through a proxy is that the
browser (e.g., MS IE5 configured to use an FTP proxy) talks HTTP (using
get and put commands) with the proxy (e.g., squid), and the proxy then talks
FTP (using either PASV or PORT mode) with the FTP server. Of the three FTP
clients I've worked with, two of them had no proxy capability. The third could
use a proxy, but it didn't talk http with the proxy.
--Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Hubbs [SMTP:">Jhubbs@niit.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 4:51 PM
To: Michael H. Warfield; Jeff Hubbs
Cc: ">ale@ale.org
Subject: RE: [ale] FTPing with a browser
Okay - then why does FTPing with a browser work through our proxy server but
FTP clients don't, no matter how we configure them with proxy server info?
(granted, you probably aren't in a position to answer that, but we've never
received a satisfactory answer from the people who run our proxy server
either)
- Jeff
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael H. Warfield [mailto:">mhw@wittsend.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 4:42 PM
> To: Jeff Hubbs
> Cc: ">ale@ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] FTPing with a browser
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 04:43:17PM -0500, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > Can someone explain what is actually happening when one
> tries FTP with a Web
> > browser? Is the browser actually doing HTTP and a
> conversion takes place on
> > the server side? What's the real story?
>
> No. It understands the ftp protocol and is acting like an
> ftp client.
>
> > - Jeff
>
> Mike
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