Re: [squid-users] accessing ftp server with non anonymous account

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 15:16, Delia Micu wrote:
>

> If I use Mozilla (with the Proxy set to use Squid) and
> then enter the url
> ftp://me:me@myFtpServerIP/filename.xml Squid passes the
> info somehow to the FTP server, which correctly
> authenticates the account (account 'me' in this case)
> and gets the files displayed in the browser.

It does this via the HTTP authentication headers. See rfc2616 for
documentation on these. If your java app uses the same headers, squid
will turn that into authentication details for FTP.

Rob