Re: [squid-users] Squid ftp authentication popup

uxmax_at_enquid.net wrote:
> Hello,
>
> thanks for your replies. indeed you can add the user details in the URI.
>
> but i wonder without squid the popup appears again..so there is an issue with squid, not ?

Not necessarily. When going through a proxy the browser does zero FTP
protocol actions. When not going through a proxy it does the native FTP
login in some other way by itself.

In this particular case I think the 'problem' is that older Squid (ie
yours) do not support the newly added FTP login features the newest
Squid do.

Amos

>
> this has been tested with firefox 3.0, 3.5, IE7, opera 10.
>
> thank you, uxmax
>
>
> ----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> Von: "Amos Jeffries" <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
> An: "Henrik Nordstrom" <henrik_at_henriknordstrom.net>
> CC: uxmax_at_enquid.net, "Squid Users" <squid-users_at_squid-cache.org>
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. Oktober 2009 23:06:10
> Betreff: Re: [squid-users] Squid ftp authentication popup
>
> On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:43:43 +0200, Henrik Nordstrom
> <henrik_at_henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
>> tis 2009-10-06 klockan 16:20 +0200 skrev uxmax_at_enquid.net:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> my problem is that squid does not send auth dialog box back to the
> client
>>> (sender/browser) ie*, firefox etc.
>>>
>>> simple example
>>>
>>> http://upload.ftpserver.com (auth popup appears)
>>>
>>>
>>> ftp://upload.ftpserver.com (popup does not appear)
>>>
>>> the authentication popup does not appear but this error message, most likely the brower tried an anonymous connection
>>> ---snip---snip---snip---snip---snip---snip---snip---snip
>>> (ERROR
>>> The requested URL could not be retrieved
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> An FTP authentication failure occurred while trying to retrieve the URL: ftp://upload.dunkel.de/
>>>
>>> Squid sent the following FTP command:
>>>
>>> PASS <yourpassword>and then received this reply
>>> Login incorrect.Your cache administrator is root.
>>> ---snip---snip---snip---snip---snip---snip---snip---snip
>>>
>> That URL is by definition anonymous FTP.
>>
>> To access non-anonymous FTP you need to use
>>
>> ftp://user:password@ftp.example.com/
>>
>> With some browsers you can leave out the :password part and Squid will
>> prompt the browser for login credentials, but some of the main browsers
>> do not support this.
>>
>> Regards
>> Henrik
>
> Firefox-3.x wil happyily popup the ftp:// auth dialog if the proxy-auth
> header is sent.
> There were a few bugs which got fixed in the 3.1 re-writes and made squid
> start to send it properly. It's broken in 3.0, not sure if its the same in
> 2.x but would assume so. The fixes done rely on C++ objects so wont be easy
> to port.
>
> Amos
>

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