On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, Jochen Roderburg wrote:

>>> $ curl -v -p -3 -k -l -x $PROXY:$PROXY_PORT --ftp-ssl
>>> ftp://$URL:$REMOTE_PORT/$REMOTE_DIR
>
> When you are doing ftp through a HTTP proxy, then it is the task of the
> *proxy* to recognize that you want a directory with your URL and it is the
> proxy that has to retrieve the listing from the ftp server and return it to
> you in some format.

Normally it would work like that yes, but in this case -p (--proxytunnel) was
used and it makes curl to CONNECT through the server and do the "full"
protocol itself.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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