On Apr 22, 2009, at 7:42 AM, Joe Greco wrote:
While HTTP remains popular as a way to interact with humans,
especially if
you want to try to do redirects, acknowledge license agreements,
etc., FTP
is the file transfer protocol of choice for basic file transfer
Speak for yourself. I haven't used FTP to transfer files in 10 years
now. About 7 years ago I turned off FTP support for all of our
webhosting clients, and forced them to use SFTP. 3 left, for a net
loss of $45/month. And we stopped having to deal with the massive
undertaking that supporting FTP properly chrooted and capable of
dealing with all parts of the multi-mount web platform required.
We've never looked back.
Ever once in a while I find someone who's offering a file I want only
via FTP, and I chide them and they fix it ;-)
--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source
and other randomness
