From: Clifford Heath <cjh_nospam@...>
Date: 2003-11-17T10:28:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Access ftp-server through proxy

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.