Hi, I'm trying to use curl over an ftp proxy. (I'm using the
precompiled curl 7.10.4 with ssl on cygwin 1.3.18.)

However, this does not seem to work... I see only one command-line
option "proxy" which does not differentiate between HTTP and FTP use.
The manual states that curl pays attention to the FTP_PROXY environment
variable, which is said to be of the form [protocol://]<host>[:port] ,
so I tried setting it to ftp://proxy . That didn't work because curl
tried to access port 1080, so I changed it to ftp://proxy:21 , which
also failed -- curl could then connect to the proxy but tried to fetch
the file with "GET ftp://servername/file HTTP/1.1", which is HTTP, not
FTP.

Looking around, I saw this message (
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2001-03/0001.html ) from two years ago
stating that curl doesn't support FTP proxies... is this still the
case? Are there any plans for FTP proxy support in the future?

(For what it's worth, our proxy uses the following method to connect to
"remotehost" as "user" with password "password":

USER user_at_remotehost
PASS password

That is, instead of connecting to "remotehost" and saying "USER user",
curl should connect to my proxy and say "USER user_at_remotehost". I
believe there are also other ftp proxies which require different
syntax, but in other programs supporting these, I haven't seen more
than six or seven methods, so the diversity is not infinite.)

I can use curl over our HTTP proxy, but it seems a bit wrong; it would
be nice to get it to work over the FTP proxy as well.

Cheers,
Philip

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