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Re: Access to the ftp site with the http protocol ?



> I would like to have http access to the ftp site too. It works faster
> and easier, and takes less server resources. Can do?
> 
> Oh, and the woody mirror is missing everything but the symlinks.


This problem seems to be fixed by now. However I believe there is another one.
Essential files like Packages seems to be missing.

ftp> ls mirrors/distro/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages
227 Entering Passive Mode (192,116,202,69,4,142).
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
226 Transfer complete.
ftp>

For comparison, on ftp.debian.org,

ftp> ls debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages
227 Entering Passive Mode (207,69,194,216,4,114).
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
-rw-rw-r--   1 ftp      ftp       3108865 Feb 19 20:11 
debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> 



> 
> 	- Adi Stav
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 04:23:52PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > I guess that the above subject is nonsense but it reflects:
> > 1) My ignorance, or at least my lack of knowledge.
> > 2) a real problem that I have.
> > 
> > Why would I reveal my ignorance publicly? 
> > Because it reflects a real problem that:
> > 1) Perhaps others share
> > 2) The ftp admin might be able to solve.
> > 
> > The problem:
> > The problem is that I am behind a firewall and must use socks or in order to 
> > have an ftp connection. Yet debian's APT does not work with socks and the 
> > proxy server seems to connect to me with http when I tries to connect to an 
> > ftp site. (It has a line like
> > <!-- HTML listing generated by Squid 2.2.STABLE4 -->). Therefor as far as I 
> > know I can not use the mirror of debian.  Still I can use debian's APT because 
> > it also support http. For example, I can access http://http.us.debian.org/debia
> > n which is for the sake of my purpose the same as an ftp site.
> > 
> > Conclusions:
> > 1) Are there more people with the same problem?
> > 2) Can the ftp admin do something?
> > 3) Any other solution?
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Shaul Karl		 		   shaulk@israsrv.net.il
> > 	An elephant is a mouse with an operating system.
> 

-- 
Shaul Karl		 		   shaulk@israsrv.net.il
	An elephant is a mouse with an operating system.



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