If I use gftp to connect to my webpage server, everything is fine.
But when I connect to a random server, to download e.g. an ISO file, I get this error:

Failed to create a socket: Address family not supported by protocol
Disconnecting from site ftp.join.uni-muenster.de

(ftp.join.uni-muenster is one of the many sites that don't work.)

And even worse, when I want to use Konq to download some kind of ISO image on linuxiso.org, privoxy gives me this:

It seems that Konq doesn't even 'want to know about' the ftp://, since it simply puts http:// in front of it, assuming you typed something like rpmfind.net.

try downloading ftp again, and also , try it from the console:

ftp videl.ics.hawai.....yadda yadda

get <filename> to get files
put <filename> to put files

there are lots of other options like a setting to re-get (reget i think) if it fails in the middle. this way the file can resume download at a later time.

if it doesnt work in the consol then you may need to download the ftp stuff again. try using another browser too like netscape or mozilla.

Well, manual ftp downloading works fine, but I think it's odd that with Mandrake 9.1 Konq could download everything I want, and that now I'm stuck with other means? Don't you think the freakin' app should do its task like it should?
Is there some kind of 'protocol list' somewhere where I can edit it? Is it something in the kernel?