topic Re: FTP Proxy in Operating System - HP-UX

FTP Proxy

Joaquin Gil de Vergara — Wed, 02 Oct 2002 10:36:07 GMT

I need to configure a ftp proxy in a HP-UX Server

That is, requests (gets, puts) to port 21 in a server must be redirected from/to another ftp server.....

Anybody knows any software

thanks in advance

Re: FTP Proxy

harry d brown jr — Wed, 02 Oct 2002 10:37:38 GMT

from or to ??

live free or die
harry

Re: FTP Proxy

harry d brown jr — Wed, 02 Oct 2002 10:46:02 GMT

Are you saying that a user on HOST-A that tries to FTP to some other server, ANY server, needs to be proxied to another HOST to accomplish the FTP? Sorry, but it doesn't work that way.

If you want to set up a PROXY-FTP server, then do so.

live free or die
harry

Re: FTP Proxy

Joaquin Gil de Vergara — Wed, 02 Oct 2002 10:58:14 GMT

harry

i want to ftp from one PC a ftp server to put a file.... i want that that file will be written in another ftp server

Re: FTP Proxy

Joaquin Gil de Vergara — Wed, 02 Oct 2002 11:01:47 GMT

basically i need a program to replace ftpd that submit requests to port 21 to another host:21

Re: FTP Proxy

Shannon Petry — Wed, 02 Oct 2002 12:13:04 GMT

Well if you FTP to HOSTA and PUT a file, there is no way to make that file go on HOSTB.
Further, there is a "proxy" command available on some ftp clients. Some servers try to detect this and fail connections if proxied.

This being said, you could run a REAL proxy server, and configure it for your needs. There is still going to be a connection from PC->PROXY->DEST, but you can manage protocols and ports.

I use Squid for HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP proxy, and it works great. You can configure ports and protocols, as well as ACL's for userlists and authentication.
I.E.
squid proxy default port is 3128.
You will need a ftp client which supports FTP proxy like Netscape. Configure the FTP Proxy for the proxy server at port 3128.
netscape type in "user:passwd@DEST"
The client opens the connection to the PROXY on port 3128, proxy server opens the connection to DEST.

Regards,
Shannon

Re: FTP Proxy

benoit Bruckert — Thu, 03 Oct 2002 06:57:22 GMT

Hi,
You can try to use another protocol between host A and B.
I.E. , mount a file system of host B on host A (Nfs or whatever...), and the put ftp command will write to this file system on the other host !
hth,
benoit

Re: FTP Proxy

Joaquin Gil de Vergara — Thu, 03 Oct 2002 09:42:46 GMT

precisely what i want is avoid nfs protocol

actually is working how you say

thanks

Re: FTP Proxy

harry d brown jr — Thu, 03 Oct 2002 10:05:13 GMT

Actually something like this is available. I had a meeting yesterday or the day before (my days are running together) with this vendor:

http://www.valicert.com/

give them a lookup.

live free or die
harry

Re: FTP Proxy

Joaquin Gil de Vergara — Thu, 03 Oct 2002 10:34:03 GMT

thank you harry

but what of this software can be useful for this?

I only see software for elctronic transactions!

enjoy and live day by day! :-)