Re: IE5 bug?

Richard Stagg wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've seen some odd behaviour with FTP using IE5 through Squid 2.1.
>
> If I go to an FTP site using Netscape Communicator, find a file called
> README, and click on it, then I get the file displayed, as expected. If I
> try the same using IE5 then the browser _appears_ to be appending a '/' to
> the filename (maybe because no extension is specified so it assumes it's a
> directory), Squid's FTP handling attempts to CWD to ./README and it all
> goes horribly wrong.
>
> Has anyone else seen this? I wonder if there's any way around it (apart
> from removing the trailing '/' from URLs ending in README in the
> redirector!)

The IE5 release notes say that there is trouble with IE5 trying to do
FTP through a proxy. Maybe this is the trouble to which they refer.

D
Received on Mon May 10 1999 - 21:39:43 MDT