On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 07:05:53PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > FTP is a firewal nightmare, it is unsecure (plaintext), the more advanced > > features are not standadized. Even parsing the directory output is terror to > > the programmer. > > On my System, running apt-spy on a ADSL Link, from 85 Debian Morrirs which > support HTTP and FTP 79 of them are faster via HTTP than FTP. Most of them > are 30-50% faster.
But from a server point of view FTP does allow things that HTTP doesnt easily support - such as limiting the number of simultaneous downloads, logins. I've setup a few mirrors of large sites and in general have done this by creating an FTP server in a DMZ, then using Apache's mod_proxy to redirect HTTP requests to it. This allows a lot of control on the part of the site admins, and is simple to maintain. Steve -- # Debian Security Audit Project http://www.steve.org.uk/Debian/
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