Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: RE: FTP over proxy

[Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Genugate?  Is that the type of proxy Hans has?  FTP_Login_GenuGate() 
sounds like a reasonable name, then.

With a procedure like that, there shouldn't be any reason to save the 
info into the session, should there?


On 7/10/2011 6:19 PM, Mike Krebs wrote:
> I think I recognized that this one is unusual/special by naming one
> of the "proxy" constants GENUGATE after the specific type of login
> needed in this case and by noting that special coding is required if
> using GENUGATE.
>
> Wouldn't the correct procedure be something like what I laid out with
> special coding for GENUGATE? We'd want a generic set of "proxy
> procedures" that would have the specific coding required inside the
> generic procedures. As more requirements came up for different
> proxies, we'd work them into the procedures.  If you think it best,
> we could have a FTP_Login_GenuGate procedure, but I was kind of
> trying to avoid exposing another large group of "Login" procedures.
> Keeping these things inside FTP_Login_Proxy would keep things tidy.
>
> If a FTP_Login_GenuGate was created...would/should it handle the
> whole login procedure or just the proxy login?
>
> I've never had to use a proxy that didn't recognize the
> user$user$site.com (or user@user@site.com) convention and frankly,
> after having used that method for 15 years, I don't see any downside.
> FTP proxies should take care of this kind of stuff for us. Looking in
> my current PC FTP client, I see lots of possibilities for proxy
> logins. Hope we don't have to go there (shouldn't plain vanilla FTP
> be going away anyway?!?!?), but I think what I laid out gives us a
> shot at helping people get there if it does come up.
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