On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Prana wrote:

> I'm Prana from Cyest.org. Recently I developed Mandrake Update Robot
> (I'm not Mandrake's employee BTW), and it uses curl-lib.

It seems to be a nice tool and a perfect use for libcurl.

> Several users reported to me that it doesn't want to download a file from
> an FTP server via proxy.

I hope they're talking about a HTTP proxy as libcurl doesn't (currently)
support any other kind of proxy. What happens? What OS? What curl version?

> I've tried HTTP tunneling but it still doesn't work.

HTTP proxy tunneling is not generally an option to most users. Most HTTP
proxies are not setup to allow general tunneling-through of things such as
the full FTP protocol.

> Is there a solution for this? Am I not being specific enough or ..?

You have to specify what the problems are. Give us protocol outputs,
anything, that offer more clues to what is happening and what isn't.

> He uses Squid proxy server and also he has another computer that goes
> through a SOCKS5 server. Is there any chance that it's going to be
> supported?

I've personally used curl fetching ftp files with a squid proxy without
problems.

No, there's no SOCKS5 support in libcurl as the FAQ entry 2.4 clearly states.
It also says: "I would appriciate patches that brings this functionality."
and that is still valid.

-- 
  Daniel Stenberg -- curl project maintainer -- http://curl.haxx.se/
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