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Drive needs: 1) increased storage space for a fee and 2) the ability to grab files from an FTP server somehow. I'm in for sure then.
by nthitz 15y ago
Drive needs: 1) increased storage space for a fee and 2) the ability to grab files from an FTP server somehow. I'm in for sure then.
- drivebyacct2 15y agoNumber 2 is oddly specific. Who uses FTP anymore anyway? (btw, those of you downvoting, STOP using FTP. seriously. Just stop.)
- Craiggybear 15y agoA lot of (very serious) people, I've found.
- groby_b 15y agoI'd seriously hope those (very serious) people use SFTP, at least.
- Craiggybear 15y agoOf course, and then some.
- klausa 15y agoI was always under impression that SFTP has much more in common with SCP, than with FTP. Is that wrong?
- namityadav 15y agoYou are correct that SFTP is not FTP. To be fair to the parent, he didn't say so either. Here are the differences between FTPS, SFTP and FTP over SSH: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol#Secure_FTP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol#Secure_F...
- Craiggybear 15y agoMy original point was merely that FTP is far from dead for general purpose file transfer. It can still be quite safe if precautions are taken with encrypting the data first. Anyone looking at it will see nothing but gobbledegook, naturally. It isn't dead and yes, of course, I know the difference between FTP and SFTP.
- groby_b 15y agoAnd my original point was that FTP is inherently insecure. It's transmitting username and password in the clear, for starters. (To be clear, I'm talking about plain vanilla RFC-959 FTP. Yes, you can add additional security layers on top. Sadly, at least the places I've seen still use FTP are the places that still use it in vanilla config. I have no idea what your experiences are - this is a comment on the general state of FTP users.)
- drivebyacct2 15y agoJust found out my father's work does all of their EDI transactions via unsecured FTP. This is like billions of dollars in orders, checks, etc that are being passed around via FTP. Stop doing this people. There are far better formats than FTP, and yes, even better and more appropriate than SFTP. (Further, even if Drive supported it, are y'all going to be uploading your private keys to Drive?)
- crdoconnor 15y ago1 is dead certain. 2 is a bizarre request, and you're probably the only person who'd want that.
- kill_all_humans 15y agoI don't think that's a bizarre request. FTP is one of the few reliable and free ways for users to transfer files between each other, which is the space that dropbox and google drive are/will be competing in. So it's just a question of interoperability. Why should I have to download a file from an ftp server before re-uploading it to to the cloud rather than doing a direct transfer, especially in an era of local bandwidth caps, mobile computing etc?
- gala8y 15y agoDo you mean like Cyberduck or something? http://cyberduck.ch/ http://cyberduck.ch/
- jxi 15y ago1) Yes 2) I think what you mean is the ability to grab the file without logging in from somewhere, and since you can currently do that from Google Docs right now, then it's most likely to be possible as well. Maybe you also mean to have canonical URL's as well, and I think that might be something that wouldn't be there initially at least.