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A few days ago i set up an apt-cache server. The clients are configured to use it as a proxy. This is necessary because we usually use ftp (and i also feals "cleaner"). So my apt.conf looks like this:

Acquire::http::Proxy "http://my.cache:3142"; # Still needed for the security repositories
Acquire::ftp::Proxy "ftp://my.cache:3142"; # I also tried "http://my.cache:3142";

The http requests work fine (I tested this by disabling the ftp proxy) but the ftp requests are hanging with the message [Logging in] and then fail with the message "Protocol corruption".

Does anyone know what to do? I would really like to continue using ftp.

The server is running apt-cacher.

Kritzefitz
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The answer is simple, apt-cacher doesn't support FTP connections, only HTTP. It was meant to be a HTTP proxy, hence it doesn't support/serve FTP connections.

Braiam
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