Re: FAQ typo & Transparent FTP proxy

Yee Man Chan wrote:

> I would also want to know if it is feasible to make a transparent Squid
> works with FTP. Are there anyone in the Squid community trying to do that? If
> yes, can you tell me how to contact him/her? If no, can you tell me where is
> the good starting point? (ie, which files to look into, what background
> information do I need to know)

You would probably have better luck looking for a caching FTP proxy
capable of operating in "transparent" mode. I am not aware of such a
beast being available freely, and does not dare to even thing about
implementing one due to the complexity of the FTP protocol state. FTP is
not designed with caching in mind, and I can think of way to many
situations where a FTP cache would be fooled and give incorrect results
to the users, and even more server incompabilities of different kinds as
there are a lot of FTP servers which does not comply to the FTP
standard.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker