Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 23:30:55 -0700 (MST) From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Gopakumar H Pillai <gopu@global.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Apache Proxy Setup Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980105232831.9682X-100000@alive.znep.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980105204058.1402n-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Gopakumar H Pillai wrote: > > > This question is not regarding FreeBSD. > > > > I have a web server Apache 1.2.4 running on a FreeBSD machine. Its in > > the intranet and acts as a proxy caching server to the firewall machine. > > > > HTTP is proxied properly. FTP is not. I can log in and browse the FTP > > site but can't download any binary file. There seems to be some problem > > with the Mime type configuration and hence the binary files are > > considered as text files. Any one has a work around? > > Try using harvest; the Apache proxying was fairly experimental at last > check. You mean squid; it is derived from the harvest project. Yes, it is a better choice for high-use proxies than Apache. The Apache proxy module works reasonably in many situations, however it has limitations and very ugly code.
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