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Re: http proxies and ftp passwords

From: A. Craig West <acraigwest_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 14:20:06 -0400

2009/6/9 Michal Marek <mmarek_at_suse.cz>:
> Daniel Stenberg napsal(a):
D>> Non-HTTP protocols over HTTP proxies is an area outside of all the specs
D>> so it's not really possible to tell who's right or wrong here. Squid is
D>> a widely used proxy so that should be reason enough for us to seriously
D>> consider this.

M> You mean ignoring the user:password in the ftp url and requiring an
M> Authorization: Basic header instead? Hopefully my patch should not make
M> it worse :).

All browsers that I know of implement ftp authentication with the
user-name and password in the URL, so I expect that the proxies will
expect it that way.
-Craig
Received on 2009-06-09