Re: Patch: FTP through HTTP-Proxy (Squid)

Marc Langheinrich (marclang@cs.washington.edu)
Mon, 21 Jun 1999 08:42:57 +0900


On Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 01:04:56AM +0200, Gisle Aas wrote:
> There is something I don't understand here.  If you set:
> 
>   $ua->proxy("ftp" => "http://squid.my.site.com");
> 
> and then perform a 'GET ftp://ftp.redhat.com'-request, don't you
> already get what you describe above.  The LWP/Protocol/ftp.pm module
> should not be involved at all.
Oops, guess you're right (afterall, you wrote this package). :-) I have to
confess I never tried that before, I was always thinking "Geeze, I whish
something like this would work", then looking at the ftp.pm module and
seeing the "if (defined $proxy)" line got all excited on how I could patch
this so that it'd work for my setup here. 

Next time I think something's missing from LWP I should probably try it out
first - given the latest example it's probably already in there! How about
one that deletes stupid patches from the libwww-perl Hypermail archive?!?
:-)

Marc
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Marc Langheinrich
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