squid proxy question

[Paul Howarth]

freejay at tri-isys.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that whenever I go to a particular ftp site (e.g. 
> ftp://ftp.somewhere.com), using my browser, it returns an error message. This 
> happens whenever the proxy server is enabled in my browser. There is a 
> firewall between my machine and the internet and it is configured to allow my 
> PC to perfrom ftp download from any ftp site. I was able to do a workaround 
> for this by putting ftp.somewhere.com in the browser's proxy setting's 
> exceptions list. But I'm thinking this is so much hassle just to add URLs at 
> the exceptions list. Is there a way to configure it in the proxy server's 
> side so that I do not have to add URL's in the exceptions list? Thanks

Is the proxy also on your PC? If not, does the firewall allow ftp 
downloads from the machine the proxy server is on?

What exact "error message" do you get?

Paul.