Proxy Problem with CONNECT

localhost · 02-12-2004, 01:24 PM

Hi guys.

I am behind my inst. HTTP proxy-firewall. The problem I am facing is that the proxy does not support the CONNECT command and for some reasons the admins have decided that it will remain this way.

I can get some other proggys like CuteFTP to work cuz (I think) they use the GET method for transfer. I was wondering if its possible to use GET instead of CONNECT in FlashFXP also cuz its my fav ftp client and much better than all others IMHO.

I thought about using a socks server but then most of the ones I know (like s2h and HTTP-Tunnel) also use connect so it leaves me back at the same spot. If any of you guys can give me some pointers about how to get it to work then I will really appreciate it.

Relevent details:

FlashFXP 2.1 Build 924
OS: WinXP Pro
Behind a HTTP proxy-firewall (Squid)
Using NAV 2004 Pro
On a 100 MBps Uni LAN

I hope I did not leave anything out

Thanks

MxxCon · 02-12-2004, 02:55 PM

check out http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthread...=&threadid=446
specificly, point #4

localhost · 02-12-2004, 04:59 PM

Thanks for the speedy reply man

Yeah I feared that it maybe a design limitation but was somehow hoping for some miraculous solution. Seems like I am stuck with CuteFTP then - unless the admins change their minds.

Sucks

Linkster · 02-12-2004, 09:08 PM

if its physically possible, i would think an option to check "use get/post with http proxy" would be good for users who do only need to download and upload and are presented with these limitations...bigstar?

bigstar · 02-12-2004, 11:10 PM

From what i've seen it isn't worth the time and effort required to support such a feature and it would require many major changes. With GET/PUT we aren't dealing with the ftp protocol anymore it's pure http.

Not to mention the fact that the LIST is returned as a html formatted webpage and the results can varry between http proxies.