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I can't see any correlation between an FTP program that makes a point of stating its written in C and saying that's for 'humans'. Also, why on earth are people
by mrmondo 11y ago
I can't see any correlation between an FTP program that makes a point of stating its written in C and saying that's for 'humans'. Also, why on earth are people still using FTP in 2015?!
- krapp 11y ago>Also, why on earth are people still using FTP in 2015?! Why are people still using the command line in 2015? Why do we still use HTTP? Because as with FTP, there are use cases for which it still works perfectly well.
- dubcanada 11y agoWait... What is wrong with FTP?
- conception 11y agoPassword sent in the clear.
- ars 11y agoFTP is quite often anonymous with no password. And you can use SFTP (secure FTP, not to be confused with SSH file transfer). It's much better than HTTP if you need entire directories. There isn't really any better protocol for giving public access to entire directories.
- jedisct1 11y agoFTP-over-TLS has been around for a long time, and is widely supported by clients and servers. But it's a really nasty hack, that introduces a lot of other issues.
- kjs3 11y agoYou mean FTP/S aka RFC4217? You ain't kidding about being a nasty hack. When it recently came up in my world, the only place it seemed to be really well supported was in the AS/400 world, where IBM seems to have standardized on it. Everywhere else there seemed to be any number of weirdnesses, incompatibilities and decrepit features. YMMV.
- Hypsurus 11y agoWhy not? I know FTP is not secure, and when I wrote skod I discovered lots of weaknesses in FTP. but still people using it.