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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Patch to add direct FTP proxy support in kio_ftp
From:       Dawit Alemayehu <adawit () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-06-28 20:49:13
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On Thursday 28 June 2001 14:21, Michael Goffioul wrote:
> > OK, I looked at the recent code (revision 1.95 of kprotocolmanager.cpp),
> > and it still won't work in my case, because the FTP proxy is not part of
> > the auto-proxy script. This script will return either DIRECT or a HTTP
> > proxy, never the FTP proxy. That's why I have to override the auto-proxy
> > settings and to add the test before the switch statement.
> > But I guess then it is more a local configuration problem, and the script
> > should be changed (unfortunately, I don't have acces to it, or maybe I
> > should use a local copy of it, hacked).
>
> I tried to hack my auto-proxy script such that it returns "PROXY
> ftp://ftpproxy:8028" if the url starts with "ftp://", but again it won't
> work. In kpac_impl.cc, you'll see that if the url returned by the script
> doesn't start with "http://", then it will be prepended automatically,
> which results in
> "http://ftp://ftpproxy:8028", giving again http as protocol (and an error).
> I really wonder if an auto-proxy script may return something else than an
> HTTP proxy, and if it wouldn't be best to separate an auto-proxy from real
> FTP proxy, as I did. Otherwise you have to also make changes to kpac code.
> What is the standard on that topic. May the JS script returns something
> else than an HTTP proxy?

Yes, it probably only understands HTTP proxies and not direct ftp proxy servers.
Stay tuned.  I think I have a way to address the need for this exception. I always 
like doing many things as generic as possible so that we do not have to repeat 
workarounds for any other protocol down the line.  BTW, does the FTP server being
used as a proxy cache the requestes, your downloads ?  Otherwise, I fail to see its 
purpose.  Perhaps virus scanning ?


Regards,
Dawit A.
 
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