>>>>> Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> writes:

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 > Given that the only thing that EWW has to do to support ftp_proxy is
 > to ensure the user configuration specifies an HTTP proxy to use for
 > the target ftp: URI, it just seems like to simple a feature to omit
 > it.

	The patch MIMEd seems to resolve the issue.

 > When no HTTP proxy is specified for the URI, EWW should indeed
 > somehow invoke the Emacs native FTP client instead.

 > I guess the same approach may be applied to the other URI schemes
 > just as well (gopher:, perhaps?)

	FTR, – I’ve tried to access [1] via Squid, and it just worked.

[1] gopher://gopher.docfile.org/1/world/monitoring/uptime

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