On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:59:11 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > Comments from Glenn below.....
> On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 04:40:09 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: <snip> >> Many websites which offer such services as file sharing and >> picture sharing and website hosting insist on the account holder's >> using the "browser upload" function found in bloatware browsers for >> the purpose of uploading files. When I write to the web site tech >> support people to ask if I can simply do FTP instead, they answer >> with a resounding "NO". >> Why can't you simply do FTP instead of doing "browser upload"? The >> techies say you can't do it, but they refuse to explain why. >> Isn't plain old ordinary FTP still the standard and normal and >> most universally acceptable method for transferring files? >> Another question: Why did the developers of MSIE and NetScape even >> ever want to incorporate a "browser upload" feature? This is >> certainly not a feature that any normal browser should have. This >> kind of feature certainly is not needed. It serves only to make the >> browser more bloated and to run more slowly. > Sam, > There you go 'throwing a monkey wrench into the works'. > HTTP-upload is on my to-do list for version 1.73 ;-) > Even if it is "unnecessary"...... > It would be quite a nice feature to have as an option. > (if it can be done without too much bloat)<g> What is this "http upload", also known as the "browser upload" feature incorporated into the unpopular bloatware browsers? Is it just a mechanism for calling a routine compiled into the main browser program? Is this routine nothing more than a quite ordinary FTP program that Bill Gates probably stole from somebody else? The Micro$oft brainwashed techies think that "http upload" or "browser upload" is something truly different, and something that uses the latest and greatest protocols that are needed for negotiating with all the web sites incorporating the latest Micro$oft "standards". This is probably what they have been instructed to believe. It sounds like something that would come right out of the Micro$oft Training Doctrine. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: http://browser.arachne.cz/
