From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 5 22:36:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA07303 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 22:36:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from scanner.worldgate.com (scanner.worldgate.com [198.161.84.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA07271 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 22:36:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcs@znep.com) Received: from znep.com (uucp@localhost) by scanner.worldgate.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id XAA29626; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 23:35:51 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (marcs@localhost) by alive.znep.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA14932; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 23:30:55 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 23:30:55 -0700 (MST) From: Marc Slemko To: Doug White cc: Gopakumar H Pillai , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Apache Proxy Setup In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.