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Why not an HTTP server with a directory index? FTP is a pretty clunky protocol: it's round-trip heavy, not friendly to NAT on the client-side when you don't us
by haileys 4y ago
Why not an HTTP server with a directory index?
FTP is a pretty clunky protocol: it's round-trip heavy, not friendly to NAT on the client-side when you don't use PASV, not friendly to firewalls on the server-side when you do. I'm not sure what benefits there are to it these days.
- spydum 4y agoFtp is dead, just enterprise and mid level companies won't let go. It boggles the mind why it has persisted so long.
- eppp 4y agoThere is tons of old crappy software that cannot understand anything else, so it persists. Like fax machines.
- Geezus-42 4y agoThough I typically use rsync these days, FTP can be useful for copying files to and from a Linux server when the client is a Windows machine.
- Kim_Bruning 4y agoRecent windows versions natively support ssh, scp, sftp on the command line.
- LilBytes 4y agoThe types of companies that use Windows will atypically take a long time to get on a modern version for their stack. Desktop fleet withstanding.
- sitkack 4y agoBut how can we pop a box without have wuftpd installed?
- doublepg23 4y agoYeah a simple `python3 -m http.server` works pretty well.
- password4321 4y agohttps://github.com/sigoden/dufs https://github.com/sigoden/dufs A file server that supports static serving, uploading MIT/Apache-2 in Rust