Do you need to transfer a file? Use the protocol designed to transfer files! Why would you use something silly like a Hypertext protocol for binary!? Because i

Do you need to transfer a file? Use the protocol designed to transfer files! Why would you use something silly like a Hypertext protocol for binary!? Because it’s faster with http, doesn’t require firewall/nat trickery at either side, is secure out of box via https, can be easily gui-ed via index plugin, cached via a proxy/cdn, supports “moved elsewhere” and other issue reporting. And if you ignore that “Hypertext” word that is there historically and look at http as just a metadata+data transfer protocol, it is clearly superior to ftp for any sort of data transfer.