On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:48:02AM +0300, Roman Kurakin wrote: > >that lftp gets a corrupted distfile when fetching through a squid > >proxy. This is because in the default configuration squid fetches all > >plain text files in ftp ascii mode, which does CR/LF translation and > >botches up the checksum. > > > IIRC this is not a bug and squid do not translate in all cases > Any way the file is marked as a text and any such translation > do not look like a violation. I guess it was done for > convenience of M$ users.
"Bug" in the sense of broken behaviour. IMO it is broken behaviour for squid to force a non-default translation policy on the client. If a FTP client really wants a non-default translation mode the protocol allows them to specify it. > IIRC it is impossible to switch this > off in squid (this is the only thing they was wrong). It can be corrected by editing squid's mime.conf. > My point of view that we should not blame the squid, this wouldn't > help. Now I know that there is such problem, you know, a couple > of peoples who will read this. But for the rest the project would > look in the bad way. More over not all peoples can control which > proxy in front of them even if they know about this problem. My > idea was to tech a fetch to request a binary mode for all files > despite of their mime type. This may not be hard to do, can you look into it? The other option would be for the squid port to install a fixed mime.conf. Kris
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