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I think FTP isn't a very good protocol anyways. HTTP and Gopher are better. (HTTP does support most of the features, including authentication, uploads, etc. The
by zzo38computer 7y ago
I think FTP isn't a very good protocol anyways. HTTP and Gopher are better. (HTTP does support most of the features, including authentication, uploads, etc. The thing HTTP doesn't have is proper directory listings; I wrote a document suggesting how this could be done, calling it "httpdirlist" specification; it is a new MIME type, and then each record is a list of records (formatted like a list of HTTP headers) separated by blank lines.)
- Exmoor 7y agoI'm sorry, Gopher? Has anything outside of some incredibly archaic library system even used Gopher in the last 20 years? To me its one of those protocols that I only remember because I hope to use it to answer some trivia question someday. Right up there with Archie and Veronica.
- zzo38computer 7y agoYes; Gopher is still in use, although not much. You could probably find a few Gopher servers still in use (I have found a few). I have my own Gopher server, too.