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I'd like to use SFTP or scp for everything, but I've discovered that it's considerably slower than regular FTP. I wish that there was a way of encrypting the lo
by kylec 18y ago
I'd like to use SFTP or scp for everything, but I've discovered that it's considerably slower than regular FTP. I wish that there was a way of encrypting the login but sending everything else via plain FTP for speed.
- SwellJoe 18y agoYou can do that with WebDAV and Digest authentication. I don't actually know that it's comparable in speed, though. I'd also question the speed argument...for large files, SSH can perform compression and make the transfer faster than FTP.
- kylec 18y agoThanks for the compression tip! My extremely informal testing produced the following results taken by copying a random binary file I had to another computer: SSH: 2.0MB/s SSH w/ compression: 2.5MB/s FTP: 2.8MB/s While SSH does not approach the speed of FTP it does come close, perhaps close enough to finally ditch FTP altogether in most situations.
- gaius 18y agoIt depends to a certain extent on what cipher you use. Try Blowfish, AES, etc for the kind of data you move and see which one is better. We aren't talking by much, mind, but every little helps.