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Re: FTP proxy?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:33:31 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Armel Asselin wrote:

> I'm sure that many of libcurl users have gone through this, now the
> question: is there any RFC / standard which tell how non-transparent FTP
> proxies should be used (is the above trick just Trilent stuff or
> widespread)?

No, not to my knowledge at least.

> the idea behind that is that if it was really widepsread/standard maybe it
> would be cool to have the tricks inside libcurl, rather than outside? and by
> the way if there is no standard, it is maybe not useful at all to do.

And this is mentioned in the TODO just because of that! ;-)

A long time ago Philip Newton posted the list that apparently is from ncftp
and their list of FTP proxy support. This list is available here:
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2003-04/0126.html

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