Re: Squid and FTP caching problem

And who is he, this man who
    would run ftpget from the unices stark prompt
    and without arguments, withal?
        -- Book of answers, verse 1452.

usage: ftpget options filename host path A,I user pass
Options:
        -c num[:delay] Max connect attempts and retry delay
        -l num[:delay] Max login attempts and retry delay
        -r num[:delay] Max restart attempts and retry delay
        -t seconds Idle timeout
        -n seconds Negative TTL
        -m type/subtype default for unknown objects <<<<<<-----LOOK!
HERE! SEND! MONEY!
        -p path Icon URL prefix
        -s .ext Icon URL suffix
        -h Convert to HTTP
        -a Do not show password in generated URLs
        -A Do not show login information in generated URLs
        -H hostname Visible hostname
        -R DON'T get README file
        -w chars Filename width in directory listing
        -W Wrap long filenames
        -C min:max Min and max port numbers to used for data
        -D dbg Debug options
        -P port FTP Port number
        -b Maximum bytes/sec rate
        -v Version

Mike Peyer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm running squid 1.1.18 on a UltraSparc and I faced
> the following FTP problem:
>
> when I try to get an ASCII file using Netscape,
> (i.e. a README or a 00index.txt file),
> Netscape want to save it on the disk (the file type is recognised
> as binary/octet-stream instead of text/plain).
> This doesn't happen when I disable caching for FTP, and the file
> is showed as plain text on the Netscape window.
>
> Is that the normal behaviour ? Is there a work-around ?
> It is very annoying saving the file only to see the content.
>
> Please, answer by email too, thanks.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike (mpeyer@cscs.ch)

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