Re: [squid-users] port 21 to squid

Hi,

On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> 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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>

Thanks! I am taking a look at frox, I think this could be a better
solution.

Best Regards,
Al
Received on Sun Sep 13 2009 - 21:45:57 MDT