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I find anonymous ftp to still be useful for distributing files to users. But for personal files? No.
by Crontab 9y ago
I find anonymous ftp to still be useful for distributing files to users. But for personal files? No.
- Piskvorrr 9y agoWith the alternatives of HTTP, HTTPS, rsync, Bittorrent and whatnot, what is the advantage of FTP? Even HTTP clients are more prevalent nowadays.
- user5994461 9y agorsync => linux only bittorent => not available out of the box and prohibited in all companies
- mfontani 9y agohttps://www.itefix.net/cwrsync https://www.itefix.net/cwrsync is just one rsync (client) for Windows, I'm sure there are more, including the Cygwin one
- tempay 9y agorsync is also available on macOS. I guess you mean "not Windows" (which is also incorrect, though it's not as ubiquitous as on Linux).
- damnyou 9y agoBoth Facebook and Twitter use BitTorrent to deploy binaries onto production machines.
- Theodores 9y agoSo if rsync is only for Linux then how does everyone else do any work? On Linux it is the preferred option, there is delete mode, ability to ignore folders and differential compression. It just works. Plus you don't have to move a mouse around. The other common way for me to upload or download files is with version control. Imagine if we integrated git into the browser and server to have something vastly more sensible.
- Piskvorrr 9y agoWeird. I seem to have deployed scripts with rsync on Linux, Mac OS, Windows native, Windows Cygwin, Android and various unixlikes. Not available out of the box, granted. "Prohibited at all companies" is an absurdly wide claim, my actual showstopper when checking viability was UDP behind NAT.
- conorrr 9y agoStill vulnerable to MITM Attacks. Someone could replace any of the files with their own malicious version. Hope none of those files are executables.