On Aug 20, 2007, at 12:30 PM, BBEdit-Talk List wrote:
I know I risk sounding like a broken record here, but the "new and
improved" BBEdit FTP browser is about to send me 'round the bend!
I gave up on ftp about 7 years ago due to numerous security issues
and now use WebDAV instead. You might consider that...
(and if your ISP doesn't support webDAV there are a million other
ISPs).
'Google Kreme' -- You apparently don't develop web pages for a
living. :) Or if you do, you don't have to answer to more than one
boss. I envy that.
Here, the 'customer' is always right. I may be able to use WebDAV
because I host my in-house stuff on my OSXS machine, but many of our
clients don't host with us, nor do we want to get in a pissing
contest with them about their choice of hosting. They simply want us
to work with what they have, and who they have, unless that
relationship is less-than-stellar. So, we deal with FTP -- more than
any other protocol.
In the same fashion that we have to deal with Exchange servers
because it is out there more than most other MTU solutions. Not
because it is better (sic). Well, for a few things, but a few things
perhaps not :)
The tail can't always wag the dog ... so having the FTP restored to
at a bare minimum it's former functionality, or to have its old
usability married to the substantial good things that the new format
appears to be heading for -- this would be ideal for BBEdit.
WebDAV is a great suggestion. I just wish it, or SFTP, could be
applied more, but we can't always make that decision. So we hope our
tools don't regress too badly as they evolve.
Just my two cents -- not picking on GK here, just throwing out some
additional perspective.
vail
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