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>I just don't see many use cases for FTP anymore I'm seeing this a lot today. It's almost like people have forgotten what FTP stands for. The use case is tran
by antisol 5y ago
>I just don't see many use cases for FTP anymore
I'm seeing this a lot today. It's almost like people have forgotten what FTP stands for.
The use case is transferring files.
>Why would you choose FTP at this point over HTTP(S), SFTP, BitTorrent, etc.?
Because I don't have a client for any of the others installed
- da_chicken 5y ago> The use case is transferring files. Yes, and it's not particularly unique or well suited to that task over any other protocol. > Because I don't have a client for any of the others installed Then I guess you can use telnet for FTP as well as web browsing.
- antisol 5y agowho said I have telnet installed?
- kragen 5y ago> Yes, and it's not particularly unique or well suited to that task over any other protocol. When the files are on an FTP server it is. And given that there are more than a million anonymous FTP servers on the internet today, there are a lot of files that are on FTP servers.