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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.
- 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.
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