On Thu, Jun 24, 2004, Shlomi Fish wrote about "FTP Service": > Now, what do everybody else think about it? So far it was only Ilya, Ira and > I. Ira's comment is pretty much irrelevant, and Ilya and I agree on the facts > but disagree on the conclusion. Should I put a "do you find the FTP service > useful?" poll on iglu.org.il? Should we consult Linux-IL with it? Please > voice your opinion.
I can tell you my own experience, from the stalker.iguide.co.il machine, which also hosts ivrix.org.il. At some point for some reason I don't even remember, we stopped supporting anonymous ftp, probably because some new FTP hole that was published. Anyway, we never looked back at anonymous ftp. It is a crappy protocol (slow and works badly behind firewals), it opens your system for security holes in yet another program (I was using wuftpd, which ran as root), and basically people became used to the richer linked structure of the web than the directory structure of FTP, so FTP's only benefit over HTTP, its directory commands (ls, etc.), became irrelevant. Another benefit of FTP over HTTP, the often-implemented "reget" command, became obsolete when HTTP 1.1 also added continuation. Therefore, I also believe that (anonymous) FTP is a protocol of the past, and there is no reason to use it any more. -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Jun 27 2004, 9 Tammuz 5764 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |If you tell the truth, you don't have to http://nadav.harel.org.il |remember anything.
