Re: [squid-users] Re: FTP Anonymous Login

Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> On 26.08.08 23:03, Nadeem Semaan wrote:
>> Just for info... I know I can use the ftp://username:password@ftp.site.com
>> but sometimes I am provided with the following: username: user\name and
>> that does not work with the above notation
>> (ftp://user\name:password@ftp.site.com) Thanks for your help.
>
> afaik the ftp:// method is defined as anonymous FTP, so either you will use
> username:password, or you will have anonymous login... or just skip squid,
> it's quite useless for non-anonymous data

Thats not Squids fault. It's the browsers that are broken and don't ask
the user to input credentials with a popup same as they would for HTTP.

Amos

>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Nadeem Semaan <nadeem_semaan_at_yahoo.com>
>> To: squid <squid-users_at_squid-cache.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 9:17:41 AM
>> Subject: FTP Anonymous Login
>>
>> Hello All,
>> Is it possible to turn off anonymous login to ftp sites from squid? I have done my best to allow "normal" ftp access from IE but when i try opening the page I get the following error:
>> An FTP authentication failure occurred while trying to retrieve the URL: ftp://ftp.site.com
>> Squid sent the following FTP command:
>> PASS <yourpassword>and then received this reply
>> User anonymous cannot log in.
>> Your cache administrator is webmaster
>

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