In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Well, http is pretty simple, it's either authenticated or unauthenticated >HTTP proxy protocol. There should be a way to specifiy for which hosts it >applies to.. You could also do HTTP over socks4/5 but that's a bit silly. > >FTP is difficult, there is at least: > ftp over http > ftp over [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ftp over site > ftp over ?? [I forget this one] > ftp over NAT (passive) > ftp over socks4 and socks5 > >Many of those have authenticated versions as well and all should have a >way to specify which addresses apply.
We have an ftp cache here which seems to be accessed differently from any of these (unless I misunderstood you). You ftp to the cache, login anonymously, and cd to a particular directory. So to get to ftp.debian.org: ftp ftpcache login: ftp password: <email> cd /sites/ftp.debian.org/pub/debian ls ...and so on. I'm not sure that you can ever have a scheme that will work for -all- the wierd and wonderful proxies, caches and firewalls out there. (This cache is something that was knocked up locally, I think. It's integrated with the HENSA mirrors, but fetches updates to individual files on demand, too.) -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: <URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4> PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .