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Re: FTP from Web browser

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From: Stuart Halliday
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1996 00:00
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Phil Cook (phil@pjcnet.demon.co.uk) wrote the following...

> I'm using Termite Internet to browse the Web. Until recently,
> FTP using the web browser worked fine but now I get a message
> about the proxy denying access. It doesn't seem to matter which
> site the FTP is from.
> 
> In the WWW style window, I have the following:
> 
> HTTP PROXY <nothing>
> FTP PROXY  HTTP://wwwcache.hensa.ac.uk:8080/
> WAIS PROXY HTTP://wwwcache.hensa.ac.uk/
> 
> I vaguely remember something about Demon setting up their own
> proxies some time ago and wonder if the Hensa entries should be
> changed.
> 
> Any ideas please?

I presume then you've not been on the Termite Internet Mailing list were
this was talked to death. Yes, you have to use your own Demon cache
I think it is http://www-cache.demon.co.uk:8080/

You need to alter the WWW setting in the Style Editor. Good Luck!

Should I take this opportunity to make a dig at DoggySoft for being rather
silly and relying on an external proxy to do it's dirty work? OK, not today.
 
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From: stuart@quantumsoft.co.uk (Stuart Halliday)
Subject: Re: FTP from Web browser
Date: 1996/03/03
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