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We recently had to build an SFTP based file upload system for our customers, complete with generating temporary ssh keypairs etc as they have no other way of sh
by Temporary_31337 4y ago
We recently had to build an SFTP based file upload system for our customers, complete with generating temporary ssh keypairs etc as they have no other way of sharing data with us that would pass various security audits.
If you told me 20 years ago that exchanging data with FTP would still be state of the art now, I’d probably would have changed careers. Literally billions sunk in tech companies and and only some incremental improvements in the fundamental network protocols.
- quesera 4y agoThe only things sftp and ftp have in common are three letters and an ability to transfer files. All the bad stuff about ftp is not present in sftp.
- chasil 4y agoThe REGET and REPUT commands are implemented by both, which is distinctive. The SITE command is thankfully not implemented in sftp, and the commands that traverse the wire are not ASCII, so they are indeed very different. Sftp also left behind the ASCII/binary mangling of line endings. I think the "ftp must die" paper reveals many of the foibles of ftp. https://mywiki.wooledge.org/FtpMustDie https://mywiki.wooledge.org/FtpMustDie