From: "Kristian Sørensen" <ks@...>
Date: 2003-11-17T10:28:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Access ftp-server through proxy



Clifford Heath wrote:
> Kristian S�rensen wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> Ouch, you're right! I should have realised that my example didn't
> actually request ftp protocol.
> 
>> Fortunately the all-over solution just poped into my head: use wget... 
> 
> 
> Yup, but that's pretty sucky. Will see if I can see how to extend
> Net::HTTP to do the right thing. The problem is in 'module ProxyDelta',
> the edit_class method, which has http:// hard-wired, sigh.
I would not say that wget sucks .. ? :) But - builtin ruby support would 
be nice though :)

Cheers, KS.