[squid-users] About Squid's FTP-Proxy mode support!

[Koji Fushimi]

Alex,

Thanks for providing useful information.
I'd like to consider further.

Best regards,
Koji


On 2018/02/07 1:46, Alex Rousskov wrote:
> On 02/06/2018 04:31 AM, Koji Fushimi wrote:
>
>> In my understanding, the default is passive mode.
>>   -/etc/squid/squid.conf  ftp_passive ON
> Yes, passive mode is the default.
>
> AFAIK, passive is also the only _working_ mode for Squid-origin
> communication. FTP active mode is broken for Squid-origin connections
> (and has been broken for many years IIRC).
>
> Native FTP proxy (that Amos has mentioned in his response) supports both
> passive and active FTP client-Squid connections. The ftp_passive
> directive has no effect on those FTP client-Squid connections. Native
> FTP proxy suffers from the same "active mode does not work" problem
> mentioned above as far as Squid-origin connections are concerned.
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Alex.
>