RE: [squid-users] Can't access non-anymous FTP via Internet Explorer

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Amos Jeffries
>> Sent: Tuesday, 19 May, 2009 22:45
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>> > Is there a special trick to get IE7+ to use Squid for
>> non-anonymous FTP?
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>> Yes. Send Squid the login details as part of the URL
>> ftp://user:pass@domain/
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>> Amos
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> Thanks Amos!
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> Unfortunately when our users need FTP, they're almost always trying to hit
> FTP servers outside of our organization. There's no way for me to
> intercept the instructions provided to our user and tell them "do it this
> way instead..." until after the original instructions fail and the user
> initiates a help ticket.
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> I think I'll just create a proxy.pac rule to tell browsers to not proxy
> FTP at all. It's not the optimal solution, but we have many more IE users
> than Firefox users.
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> Cheers
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> James

Yes that would be the easiest thing at present.
Keep an eye on http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2395
as well. I have crossed fingers that we might be able to solve it within
only a few years (ie Squid-3.3 or 3.4 maybe).

Amos
Received on Thu May 21 2009 - 03:06:09 MDT