Wingate FTP access

[ABrown1985]

Greetings all,

We are having trouble with FTP access through our wingate server.

We have confirmed access to FTP sites outside of wingate works fine, but when we try to access them through Wingate we get:

"The website declined to show this webpage
HTTP 403
Most likely causes:
This website requires you to log in."

If we access it directly (outside of wingate), we are prompted with the appropriate log in box to access the ftp site.

We are accessing it through internet explorer, and I have read that the proxy settings in IE should point to the http port of wingate, as this is how wingate sees ftp traffic from IE. We have set these accordingly, and also tried pointing it to the FTP port of wingate, but all to no avail.

Any more suggestions of how to get this working?

[adrien]

Hi

Using FTP in a web browser has a few special requirements.

Firstly most web browsers if you specify an FTP proxy to use will actually just submit an FTP URL to the proxy using HTTP, and the proxy has to implement a FTP client, and translate the response back to HTTP for the browser.

So generally we recommend using a "real" FTP client that knows about FTP proxies.

Failing that, you can enter a username and password in the URL

e.g.

ftp://user:pass@someftpsite.com/

We're working on a new release of 6.5 that solves this problem by sending an HTTP auth request to the browser as well, so this will become easier soon.

Regards

Adrien

[DrWho]

I have been able to use FTP successfully through Wingate by leaving the FTP proxy setting (only) blank on IE's proxy settings configuration page. This directs FTP through ENS instead of HTTP and works without any problems.

-Jim