Re: [squid-users] port 21 to squid

Jakob Curdes wrote:
> Al - Image Hosting Services schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have routing set up to push everything from port 21 to the squid
>> proxy port. This doesn't seem to work even with IE using ftp on
>> Windows. However on linux FireFox works fine when I configure it to
>> use the proxy with ftp connections. It also seems to work fine with
>> wget, although using gFTP seems to have some issues. I was hoping to
>> use squid to block some ftp sites. Is there any way to do this?
> Only if you block port 21 and tell the browsers to use squid as FTP
> proxy. squid does FTP proxing via HTTP, it is not a true FTP proxy (but
> such proxies exist!).
> Most current FTP client can operate via a HTTP proxy in the download
> direction; uploads are a different issue. This should be ok for the
> occasional driver download; if you use FTP seriously you should look for
> a dedicated FTP proxy program.
>
> HTH,
> Jakob Curdes
>

frox is the FTP proxy I'd recommend.

Amos

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