On 04/25/2017 05:29 PM, lee wrote:
since the usage of FTP seems to be declining, what is a replacement
which is at least as good as FTP?
I'm aware that there's webdav, but that's very awkward to use and
missing features.
Is this about security? Then the closest replacement is FTPS (aka SSL
FTP). It's just plain old FTP at its core, but over SSL. You do need an
FTP client that supports SSL though. You can configure it to only
encrypt passwords while the payload data remains non-encrypted.
There's also SFTP, but that's completely different (even though it has
"FTP" in the name, it's actually SSH, not FTP.)
And there's rsync too, which is for synchronization of files (only
changes are uploaded, not the whole data) which makes it very fast if
what you upload is intended to replace old data.
