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Also disappeared when http 1.1 added range requests around 1999

• hobarrera 10y ago
  FTP has been obsolete since 1999 thanks to ssh/sftp. It should have died along with RSH, but people insisted on keeping it alive.
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  • therein 10y ago
    How about the disaster that is FTPS, or even more confusing FTPES. What were they thinking.
  • majewsky 10y ago
    SSH/SFTP is mostly for authenticated access. The submission is explicitly talking about "public FTP servers" (i.e. anonymous access).
• jwilk 10y ago
  HTTP/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 10y ago
    heh the shitty proxies i saw in uni still have issues with 1.1 5 years ago :(