RE: IE5 bug?

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On Tue, 11 May 1999, Mike Batchelor wrote:

 | How are you folks getting IE5 to even USE a proxy for FTP? When I go to a FTP
 | URL, I get the IE5 FTP client, not the Squid-generated HTML representation of
 | a FTP site. I am using an automatic proxy configurator script. IE5 seems to
 | ignore it for FTP URLs.
 |
 | > -----Original Message-----
 | > From: Dancer [mailto:dancer@zeor.simegen.com]
 | > Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 8:26 PM
 | > To: Richard Stagg
 | > Cc: Squid Users
 | > Subject: 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
 | >
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