RE: IE5 bug?

How are you folks getting IE5 to even USE a proxy for FTP? When I go to a FTP
URL, I get the IE5 FTP client, not the Squid-generated HTML representation of
a FTP site. I am using an automatic proxy configurator script. IE5 seems to
ignore it for FTP URLs.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dancer [mailto:dancer@zeor.simegen.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 8:26 PM
> To: Richard Stagg
> Cc: Squid Users
> Subject: Re: IE5 bug?
>
>
> Richard Stagg wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've seen some odd behaviour with FTP using IE5 through Squid 2.1.
> >
> > If I go to an FTP site using Netscape Communicator, find a file called
> > README, and click on it, then I get the file displayed, as expected. If I
> > try the same using IE5 then the browser _appears_ to be appending a '/' to
> > the filename (maybe because no extension is specified so it assumes it's a
> > directory), Squid's FTP handling attempts to CWD to ./README and it all
> > goes horribly wrong.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this? I wonder if there's any way around it (apart
> > from removing the trailing '/' from URLs ending in README in the
> > redirector!)
>
> The IE5 release notes say that there is trouble with IE5 trying to do
> FTP through a proxy. Maybe this is the trouble to which they refer.
>
> D
>
Received on Tue May 11 1999 - 11:25:30 MDT