Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:48:02AM +0300, Roman Kurakin wrote:
that lftp gets a corrupted distfile when fetching through a squid
proxy. This is because in the default configuration squid fetches all
plain text files in ftp ascii mode, which does CR/LF translation and
botches up the checksum.
IIRC this is not a bug and squid do not translate in all cases
Any way the file is marked as a text and any such translation
do not look like a violation. I guess it was done for
convenience of M$ users.
"Bug" in the sense of broken behaviour. IMO it is broken behaviour
for squid to force a non-default translation policy on the client. If
a FTP client really wants a non-default translation mode the protocol
allows them to specify it.
IIRC it is impossible to switch this
off in squid (this is the only thing they was wrong).
It can be corrected by editing squid's mime.conf.
My point of view that we should not blame the squid, this wouldn't
help. Now I know that there is such problem, you know, a couple
of peoples who will read this. But for the rest the project would
look in the bad way. More over not all peoples can control which
proxy in front of them even if they know about this problem. My
idea was to tech a fetch to request a binary mode for all files
despite of their mime type.
This may not be hard to do, can you look into it?
I've made a patch but it was ugly and was broken by update of libfetch.
I'll try to check the current state of libfetch and update my patch.
rik
The other option would be for the squid port to install a fixed
mime.conf.
Kris
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