Configuring active FTP between the proxy and the ftp server

Products

• ProxySG Software - SGOS

Issue/Introduction

Configuring active FTP between the proxy and the FTP server
You want to know how to configure active FTP between the proxy and the FTP server

Resolution

Active FTP

To configure the proxy so an active FTP connection is used between the proxy and the FTP server (versus a passive connection) configure the following in the forwarding policy layer:

If you are using an FTP client and the FTP proxy

client.protocol=ftp ftp.server_data(port)

If you are using an HTTP client (browser)

url.scheme=ftp ftp.server_data(port)

If you want the ProxySG to have an active FTP connection to a particular site and passive to all other sites:

<Forward>
server_url.domain=example.com ftp.server_data(port)

NOTE: In version 6.6.x is the option "port" changed to option "active"

NOTE:  Please replace example.com with the domain name of the FTP server.