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Its a strange thing how co-incident "optimizing for the majority" is with "killing open standards" and "Google specific features" A real strange thing... Not

• stickfigure 7y ago
  This is silly. FTP is an awful protocol and there are other perfectly fungible open standard replacements for it, like HTTP/HTTPS. FTP dates from the era before NAT and firewalls and makes a bunch of problematic design choices, like having the server establish a separate port connection to the client (or vice versa, for passive mode) to transfer the file. It's super chatty, requiring multiple waits for response, and therefore slow. There's no length check, so if your socket gets closed you silently save a half-finished file. FTP should just die off.