Re: FTP PUT from the Publish button of Netscape Gold

Barry.Cornelius@durham.ac.uk writes:

>Netscape 3.0b7 allows you to edit a WWW page on your PC and then hit the
>Publish button when you want to copy the file to the server. This works
>fine if I configure Netscape to have "No Proxies". However, if I
>configure Netscape to use our local cache, then Squid (1.0.6) gets in the
>way. I get the following error message:

>[...]

>Two problems:
>1. The error message given earlier implies to me that the Squid
> software thinks I'm doing an FTP GET rather than an FTP PUT.
>2. My unencrypted password is in both the access and hierarchy logs.
> This ought not to occur.
>
>Is Squid behaving properly? Have I misconfigured something?
>Can I configure myself out of the first problem?

properly? I dunno. According to what?

Squid does not support FTP uploads at all. You are correct that it
always assumes an ftp:// URL is a GET request.

To support this, we'll need an 'ftpput' program, which may not
be too difficult to write since it won't have to covert any
output to HTML/HTTP. Any volunteers?

You might be able to configure netscape to go directly for
FTP PUT's. Their proxy config language should do that I'd think.

Duane W.
Received on Wed Aug 28 1996 - 15:00:44 MDT