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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