Re: FAQ? authenticated ftp.

From: Nigel Metheringham <Nigel.Metheringham@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 10:07:46 +0000

} On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Andrew Gillham wrote:
} It'd be nice if these sorts of FTP accesses could occur through Squid (for
} consistency so you didn't have to split things up), even if the
} information transferred wasn't cached (which might be a good idea, given
} that the information itself is not necessarily "public" in nature).

The information should certainly not be cached - otherwise you could look
through the current cache contents and pick out the username/password from
the URLs! The logfile might want to be modified as well!

        Nigel.

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