On 06/14/12 4:08 PM, Gelen James wrote:
I had the same idea with you just a few years back that the ftp only servers FTP protocol. But nowadays a FTP server provides same contents over a lot of protocols at the same time: FTP/FTPS/SFTP/HTTP/HTTPS
thats just silly. I suppose we should call NFS FTP too, because it serves files?
the classic FTP protocol is a hangover from the 1970s and really should be sent to pasture and allowed to die a peaceful death. I generally use http for serving anonymous read only files, and sftp/scp for authenticated transfers