FTP via Proxy authentification

[Jose Mosquera]

Hi pals,

Do we require to place several files from HP-UX 11.0 to a customer into an Internet address. Do you know some HP-UX's client/software that ftp can make through the authentification of the Proxy (8080 port)?

I've read about "ncftp" software into HP-UX Porting Centre, Any previuos experience with this software?

Regards,

[Massimo Bianchi]

Hi,
in one of my customer site we use ncfto to get/put files through a firewall, that obviously requires authentication. It works perfectly.


If you need, there are toher good tools like wget

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/wget-1.8.2/

HTH,
Massimo

[Jose Mosquera]

Hi Massimo,

I've discarded this software because explain that only allow "get" action, are you sure that allow "put" and "get" actions?

regards

[Massimo Bianchi]

HI,

ncftp does both.

wget is used only for the get part, can you invert the flow ?

HTH,
Massimo

[Shannon Petry]

If you need a client that can do this, then Netscape should work just fine using the Proxy settings.

A short cut to authentication, is typing the username:passwd into the address like so.

ftp://myid:mypass@my.ftpsite.com

This will alleviate a few popup's is all. I have not had tremendous luck with ftp clients outside of Linux using a proxy server. ncftp is supposed to be good, but I found it to be quirky for auth the last time I used it. It does work very well in Linux though, so maybe it's better now in HP than I remember.

Sincerely,
Shannon