Matthew Seaman <matt...@freebsd.org> writes today: >> About the only useful way to use FTP any more is for anonymous read-only >> access to download stuff from an archive -- and in that use case, a web >> server is generally a much better choice. FTP as a protocol is archaic >> and needs to die.
I agree with the first point (up to the dash), but strongly disagree with the second: FTP provides directory listing capability, whereas HTTP does not. I use "dir -tr" in FTP connections quite frequently, and I find the timestamps in the directory listings critical information that is routinely lost at many HTTP-only sites. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: be...@math.utah.edu - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 be...@acm.org be...@computer.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
