On 14 May 2013 17:12, Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: > On Tue, 14 May 2013 17:12:18 +0200 Martti Kühne <mysat...@gmail.com> wrote: >> How is lack of a standard a problem in that concern? The topic was >> about uploads, and even my cfw cgi server [0] supports uploads and you >> could just go and implement a sufficiently featured directory listing >> that fits your needs with it. If you helped me implement sessions, we >> might even go do user logins and specify private/shared space. > > Damn, my head hurts. Just use fucking FTP. It has sessions, encryption, > (somewhat) standardized directory listenings, separate file transfer, > progress bars (client feature) and everything you need to add yet anoth‐ > er hack to the web. > > Do we really need a revamp of FTP so people will start reusing a dedi‐ > cated protocol for this? SSL in CIFS maybe?
You could as well consider 9P. Best regards, Anselm
