The FTP server in question is not one my company owns and operates, so
we can not simply fix the server. The server reports "Microsoft FTP
Service (Version 4.0) although Im not sure what version of windows its
running on.
When manually changing directories via command line FTP prog, I do
indeed get a 550 access denied error. This is before I get a chance to
try and list the directory contents.
Changing the slashies to %2f does indeed work and allows us to access
that path directly. However were using a different workaround, where
we're actually routing the FTP traffic directly and not using a proxy
server at all for FTP. Its not my first choice, but it happens to work
in this particular instance. Appearing transparent to the end user is
more important.
Thanks,
-Tony
Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
On fre, 2007-09-28 at 12:43 -0400, Tony wrote:
Pardon me if I'm missing something, but I noticed squid will only change
one directory at a time via the CWD command.
Yes, as defined in RFC1738 where the ftp:// URL scheme is specified.
It will not CWD directly
to the requested path. This presents a problem for me where I have to
change directories below folders without read perms.
For instance: ftp://ftp.example.com/ftp/data/user/
You can URL-encode parts if you want Squid to see them as a single
directory with / in their name..
Lets say that the data directory does not have read permissions on it to
keep from getting a user list of the FTP box. The user directory
however has read perms on it. When I try an go to the full URL, squid
replies:
Squid sent the following FTP command:
CWD data
and then received this reply
ftp: Access is denied.
This is an odd FTP server.. allowing CWD via a directory but not CWD
into the directory..
CWD do not need read access, only the right to change directory in or
via the directory..
Any ideas on how to get past this?
ftp://ftp.example.com/ftp/data%2fuser/
But I would seriously recommend fixing the FTP server to allow CWD but
not read access to data.. odd setups like this is just confusing to
everyone involved.
What kind of FTP server is this? On what OS?
Regards
Henrik
