[SunHELP] command line ftp via iplanet web proxy server.

[Jim Pennino]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 03:24:21PM -0400, Ajit P. Datey wrote:
> Hi! I have already tried this. Problem is IPlanet WEB proxy is URL based and
> it allows any ftp request as long as it is sent in as
> ftp://userid@remotehost i.e. from a browser.
> 
> I was looking at something where I can fool IPlanet Proxy into thinking that
> the ftp request is in a URL format but actually it is from the command line.
> 
> Regards
> Ajit
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "stephen price" <sd_price at yahoo.com>
> To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> Cc: <adatey at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 2:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [SunHELP] command line ftp via iplanet web proxy server.
> 
> 
> > Here's what I use - not elegant scripting - but it
> > works - after I got ahold of the owner of the proxy
> > and had them set up the account info on the proxy
> > server....
> >
> > # Define variables
> > ftpid="userid at destination_remotehost"
> > ftppass="password_at_destination_remotehost"
> > ftphost="local_proxy_server"
> >
> > ftp -ni $ftphost
> > user $ftpid $ftppass
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Try wget.


-- 
Jim Pennino