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Proxy connection from Mac Fetch Client (3 posts)

• Started 16 years ago by stardotstar
• Latest reply 16 years ago from stardotstar

• stardotstar Member

  I have done a search on this but I am facing considerable frustrations with the corporate proxy for ftp from Mac OS.

  When I use my favourite ftp client in Windows I need to configure the proxy to be USER USER@FTPHOST.

  What I don't seem to be able to do in Mac is any further proxy configuration than what is available in the network setup - basically only sepcifying the ftp host and port and an optional username and password

  but my proxy host does not require a password authentication but rather a specific syntax for initiating the onward connection.

  so fetch does not connect.

  This is the proxy configuration that works from within windows (actually via NAT and a vmware guest on my mac...)
  USER ftp-user@ftp-host ftp-port

  is there any way to get Mac OS and fetch to use the same configuration?

  Will

  Posted 16 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  Hi Will,

  You should go into the Proxy section of Fetch Preferences and set the Proxy type menu to

  User with no logo (aka. USER user@host)

  Also, you'll need to enter the hostname of the proxy server in the Proxy hostname field.

  Does that work?

  Thanks,

  Posted 16 years ago #

• stardotstar Member

  Yes that works. I didn't seem to have the port number entered and yet the ip of the proxy was there so I guess I didn't quite get there before...

  Thank you for your help. Fetch is a very good ftp client for mac...

  Will

  Originally posted by JimMatthews:

  Hi Will,

  You should go into the Proxy section of Fetch Preferences and set the Proxy type menu to

  User with no logo (aka. USER user@host)

  Also, you'll need to enter the hostname of the proxy server in the Proxy hostname field.

  Does that work?

  Thanks,

  Posted 16 years ago #