On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 07:10:38 +0000 Peter Palfrader <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > talking to several mirror operators on IRC (including fewllow DSA > members), I get the impression that a lot of us would appreciate if we > could deprecate the FTP as a transport protocol. I'm genuinely curious as to the reasons why. The only real ones I can think of is the fun of firewalling FTP effectively (but that's not a massive deal to handle), socket re-use rather than potentially lots of connections in TIME_WAIT, and I guess HTTP can be more responsive if fetching a large number of very small files, where the smaller setup overhead is a win. I don't see any of those as particularly good reasons to want to fully stop offering FTP downloads, though. FTP is, after all, designed for file transfers, and programatically fetching file lists cleanly from an FTP server is easier than HTTP mirrors, so is probably easier for e.g. a netboot installer or other client to make use of, no? Cheers Dave P
