Re: [squid-users] FTP upload.

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 04:30:55PM +0100, Kinkie wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 15:11 +0100, Christoph Haas wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:51:24AM -0200, Renato Policani wrote:
> > > How can I do allow ftp upload in squid ?
> >
> > As Squid is not an FTP proxy (only HTTP) you can only use dirty
> > workarounds. The way we currently do it is allowing CONNECT requests on
> > all ports (because of the high-ports) for specific users and specific
> > destination IPs. This tunnels the whole FTP session through the
> > "CONNECT" method transparently so you need an FTP client that is
> > CONNECT-capable. The only client that I found was the "SmartFTP"
> > shareware.
>
> Why? AFAIK squid correctly translates HTTP "PUT" requests into the
> correct series of FTP operations.
> The "lftp" software for unix-like systems supports natively working with
> an http-ftp gateway such as squid, without needing any "dirty"
> workarounds.

Nice. I'll try that. Do you know anything like that for my demented
Windows-using coworkers? :)

Cheers
 Christoph

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