Re: tlug: Making "command line" ftp through a proxy/firewall

[Klaus Kudielka <kudielka@example.com>]

Martos-Riano wrote:
> My office computer with Win95 can perform web, ftp, etc... from Netscape through
> a proxy server

This statement is also valid for Linux Netscape.

> >From my linux partition, I cannot make a ftp ftp.debian.org. The answer from a

This statement is also valid for Win95 command-line FTP.

> But I am sure the Linux community has found a solution to this. If there is no
> solution, I guess upgrading packages in the debian distribution would consist in

The problem is that FTP clients only speak FTP. If your office doesn't have a
proxy also speaking the FTP protocol on the internal network (try ftp
your-proxy, login with ftp@example.com), you need a user agent which makes
HTTP requests with FTP URLs. Lynx and Netscape come to my mind.

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