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The only reason I ever remember preferring FTP over HTTP in the 1990s was because FTP usually meant that I could resume large downloads if my connection dropped
by raamdev 9y ago
The only reason I ever remember preferring FTP over HTTP in the 1990s was because FTP usually meant that I could resume large downloads if my connection dropped mid-download. That was a big deal when it took several hours to download something. That benefit largely disappeared for me as broadband got faster and the connections became more reliable.
- justinsaccount 9y agoAlso disappeared when http 1.1 added range requests around 1999
- hobarrera 9y agoFTP has been obsolete since 1999 thanks to ssh/sftp. It should have died along with RSH, but people insisted on keeping it alive.
- jwilk 9y agoHTTP/1.1 was published in 1997: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2068 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2068 But it probably took a few years to be universally adopted.
- tacticus 9y agoheh the shitty proxies i saw in uni still have issues with 1.1 5 years ago :(
- awqrre 9y agoFXP was pretty cool too and an FTP server can be used almost as local storage with the right apps.