From: "Kristian Sørensen" <ks@...>
Date: 2003-11-17T10:26:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Access ftp-server through proxy



Clifford Heath wrote:
> Kristian S�rensen wrote:
> 
>> Okay, that's sounds easy, but I can't get it to work. Can you complete 
>> a ftp-download example?
> 
> 
> I don't know if it's possible with Ruby 1.6. Your example doesn't work
> because the "start" method expects a DNS-resolvable name, but you
> gave it "ftp://anonymous:anonymous@ftp.sunsite.dk".
> 
> I don't recall seeing this in 1.6, but 1.8 has Net::HTTP.Proxy:
> 
> #! /usr/bin/env ruby
> require 'net/http'
> 
> Net::HTTP::Proxy('webproxy.local', 3128).start('ftp.netscape.com') { |http|
>         response, data = http.get('/')
>         $stdout.write(data)
> }
> 
> Works a treat here.
Hi again!

As I wrote earlier, it seems to work nicely. However the reason for 
this, is that a webserver is also providing an interface to 
ftp.netscape.com. The request created by Ruby is an http request on port 
80, not a ftp request.

Fortunately the all-over solution just poped into my head: use wget... 
`wget --passive-ftp #{server}:#{pathAndFile}`


Cheers, KS.