On or about 11 Feb, 2000, Michael Warner
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[concerning ftp'ing through a proxy]
> The proxy sticks in a lot of other junk, too, that until now
> I was blaming on the ftp servers. ftp_proxy has now been duly
> commented out in my lynx.cfg, and my world is a little brighter
> place.
>
> Anybody know if that's configurable in the proxy? If it is, I
> might be able to convince the local sys-admin to do something
> about it. Somehow I doubt that un-escaping those colons
> qualifies as "best practice".
Never mind. The proxy isn't intended for ftp, anyway, according
to the "auto-config" file you give netscape to tell it what to
do about proxying. I guess I should've figured out that it
didn't make too much sense going through a caching proxy for ftp,
anyway. Not too many repeat requests for a given file, I don't
imagine.
Netscape doesn't seem to have any qualms about un-escaped colons
in the URL's, though. Escapes them internally, maybe?
--
Michael Warner
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