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> But perhaps we don't care anymore. The web is gradually consuming all that came before it. It is partly the web/HTTP eating everything but also that FTP is l
by zkms 10y ago
> But perhaps we don't care anymore. The web is gradually consuming all that came before it.
It is partly the web/HTTP eating everything but also that FTP is legitimately a bad protocol and is less tolerant of horrid shit going on in layers below it (like NAT) than HTTP is.
- zeta0134 10y agoI think my favorite "feature" of the FTP protocol has to be ASCII mangling, wherein the FTP server tries to mess around with line endings and text encoding mid-transfer. It's so bad that vsftpd, one of the better FTP servers for Linux systems, pretends to support it but silently refuses to perform the translation. http://sdocs.readthedocs.io/en/master/sdocs/ftpserver/vsftpd/vsftpd.html http://sdocs.readthedocs.io/en/master/sdocs/ftpserver/vsftpd...
- kalleboo 10y agoI wrote a custom FTP server once (it was database-backed instead of filesystem-backed - e.g. you could do searches by creating a directory in the Search directory) and I added in insulting error messages if a client tried to exercise one of the more antiquated features of the spec (e.g. EBCDIC mode)