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> Before this release, you could use curl to do “third party” transfers over FTP, and in this release you could no longer do that. That is a feature when the c
by ForHackernews 2y ago
> Before this release, you could use curl to do “third party” transfers over FTP, and in this release you could no longer do that. That is a feature when the client (curl) connects to server A and instructs that server to communicate with server B and do file transfers among themselves, without sending data to and from the client.
That sounds like a super useful feature that would be great if more FTP servers supported it. I guess FTP itself is a dying protocol these days, but it's extremely simple and does what it says on the tin.
- crabbone 2y agoFTP is still the best way to transfer files between a phone and a PC. Well, Android anyways. I don't know how things work in the Apple world. It's bizarre that whatever the "official" method of file transfer is is so bad. Also, managing files on Android is, on its own very bad. FTP allows connecting a decent file manager to the phone and do the management externally.
- raxxorraxor 2y agoSadly FTP didn't seem to have a smooth TLS transition. There is FTPS (among SFTP), but I have rarely seen it in use. I think it will survive as a protocol as a fallback mechanism. Ironically I used FTP on a smartphone here and there because Smartphone OS are abysmally useless. Don't get me started with your awesome proprietary sync app, I don't do trashy and they all are. Otherwise I do everything today through scp and http, but it is less optimal technically. It just happens to be widely available. FTP theoretically would provide a cleaner way for transfers and permission management.