From: Clifford Heath <cjh_nospam@...>
Date: 2003-11-17T10:26:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Access ftp-server through proxy

Kristian S�rensen wrote:
> - Internet browsers is able to use e.g. regular squid proxy to make ftp 
> connections. That was what I was after. It isn't too many places a socks 
> server is available (not that I know of anyway ;)

You make an HTTP proxy request, using an FTP URL.

An HTTP proxy request differs from a normal HTTP request
in that the GET line contains "http://host.domain" at the
start of the URL string. Just replace the http with ftp,
add whatever username/password you need, and Squid will
do the FTP for you. The request line looks like:

GET ftp://user:password@host.domain/pub/some_file HTTP/1.0

I haven't tried to do this with Ruby's http though...

Clifford.