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Date:      Thu, 17 Sep 1998 23:33:35 +1200 (NZST)
From:      Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz>
To:        Allen Smith <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu>
Cc:        isp@FreeBSD.ORG, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Copyleft/BSD Copyright FTP Proxy Software
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980917190756.11763F-100000@aniwa.sky>
In-Reply-To: <9809161857.ZM22358@beatrice.rutgers.edu>

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On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Allen Smith wrote:

> I'm sorry, I didn't specify sufficiently. We're needing to support FTP 
> PUTs, so squid won't work (even if it wasn't for browsers, not command 
> line FTP programs). We're about to be using FreeBSD for a firewall for 
> IRIX machines, and the Socks version 4, as well as not being supported 
> currently (or at least not well supported), doesn't work right on
> IRIX. I've asked on the Socks mailing list about this problem, and the 
> only reply I got was to go to the (restrictively copyrighted) version
> of Socks 5. Incidentally, if there's one out there that'll do well,
> I'm willing to try making the proxy server portion of it into a port.

delegated in the  ports collection provides FTP PUT along with a wide
range of other proxy services.  It won't give you the performance of
squid.  I haven't looked at it's source or heard any comments on it's
security.

Andrew


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