Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:10:39 -0500 From: "Scott Ullrich" <sullrich@gmail.com> To: "J.R. Oldroyd" <fbsd@opal.com> Cc: Max Laier <max@love2party.net>, Remko Lodder <remko@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: deprecate ftp-proxy in favor of ftp/pftpx Message-ID: <d5992baf0712141510k486d5e8dw34e34168fb7e438b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20071214175541.158bfa29@linwhf.opal.com> References: <20071214153229.17383065@linwhf.opal.com> <200712142239.13422.max@love2party.net> <20071214170722.5e5853c3@linwhf.opal.com> <200712142322.29072.max@love2party.net> <20071214175541.158bfa29@linwhf.opal.com>
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On Dec 14, 2007 5:55 PM, J.R. Oldroyd <fbsd@opal.com> wrote: > > Admittedly, I was under the impression that the proxy host here had > been upgraded to 7.0; this turns out to be not the case. > > The ftp-proxy host in question is one of the few here that has not > yet been upgraded from 6.2 to 7.0. It is therefore still running the > OpenBSD 3.7-derived ftp-proxy. A bunch of desk/laptops here have > recently been upgraded to 7.0 and with that came recent versions > of firefox. I gather that a change in firefox documented here: > http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-11.html > no longer permits the behavior of ftp-proxy in changing the data port, > making recent versions of firefox incompatible with the old ftp-proxy. > That's why firefox appeared to stop working. > > I do see that the ftp-proxy on 7.0 has been changed and that the > man page does look rather like the one for pftpx, so I now see > that what you're saying, Max, looks right. > > The problem I ran into, that of having new 7.0 desktops and recent > versions of tools like firefox, together with a 6.x firewall/proxy > host, may be a situation others run into over the next few weeks. > Perhaps it's worth posting a heads up to stable@ once 7.0 is > released, explaining that folks still using 6.x on a firewall/proxy > will need to replace ftp-proxy with ftp/pftpx, and then go back > to ftp-proxy when they upgrade the firewall/proxy host to 7.x. > > I had seen the note in UPDATING, but that note does not mention > the breakage with firefox or what the solution is. I recently ported the latest OpenBSD ftp-proxy over (v1.15) and it is available if anyone wants to use it at http://www.pfsense.com/~sullrich/ported_software/ftp-proxy_v1.15.tgz This version should hopefully do everything you need. Scott
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