ftp url problem?

Hello,

On a squid 1.1.20 NOVM, Linux, I put the following url into my browser:
This is the absolute path of the file.

ftp://username:password@hostname/home/ftp/someuser/somefile.exe

I get the following response:

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ERROR

The requested URL could not be retrieved

While trying to retrieve the URL:
ftp://username@hostname/home/ftp/someuser/somefile.exe

The following FTP error was encountered:

      home/ftp/someuser/somefile.exe: Not a directory.

This means that:

    The given URL does not exist, or is not readable.

Generated Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT, by squid-ftpget/1.NOVM.20@TEAMInternet
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If I change the url to the follwing:

ftp://username:password@hostname/somefile.exe

It works. The file actually lives in the directory i am put into on a
successful login. woohoo

It also works in both instances if I do not go through the proxy, ie. just using
a straight dialin client, or going through a masqueraded connection without the
proxy.

The reason I ask this is a site on the Internet generates the url and when I
click on it
it gives me the error. I played with it for a while and found that if I logged
using
an ftp command line client I could see and get the file both ways, using;
get /home/ftp/someuser/somefile.exe OR
get somefile.exe

Before I start digging through the squid code I would like to get a feel for if
this
has been fixed in a later release, and if not is it part of the url parsing code
in squid
or is it the squid ftpget program that is doing the wrong thing.

Thanks

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Rodney D. Holm                  rodneyh@apexxtech.com
Apexx Technology, Inc.          http://www.apexxtech.com
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