Re: ftp proxy

[Ambrose Li [EDP]]
> On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 06:49:24AM -0800, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
> >
> > If you read the documentation, you will find that Squid supports the "ftp
> > mode" defined in the HTML specification. It is not a generic FTP proxy
> > server.
> >
> > If you need a generic FTP proxy server, go to "http://www.fwtk.org" where
> > you can use the "ftp mode" to download an FTP proxy server using a URL
> > similar to the following.
> >
> > "ftp://www.fwtk.org/pub/fwtk.tar.gz"
>
> Or try the Delegate proxy (http://wall.etl.go.jp/delegate/), which
> can act as a caching ftp proxy (but only in a very non-transparent
> way).
>
> (Delegate seems to be a slower proxy than squid, though, as least
> for the http protocol -- or I have done something very wrong when I
> tried Delegate, or it could be a combination of the two.)

Delegate can do a LOT more than plain FTP proxying, sometimes too much in
my opinion.

So if you only need a simple FTP proxy, looking at the SuSE FTP proxy from
their proxy suite might be an idea: http://proxy-suite.suse.de/

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