Albert C. Uy writes:
> Greetings!
>
> A good day to you. Is it a good idea to migrate an FTP server
> to an HTTP server instead? Is ftp more efficient when it comes to
> file distribution(hence the acronym)?
It is a good idea, if only because there are so many published remote
exploits for FTP servers. Also HTTP is a simpler protocol, involves less
overhead, and servers typically run as a standalone daemon rather than from
inetd. FTP used to have a slight edge, as it supported chunk downloads
(e.g. reget), but HTTP 1.1 supports that now as well.
Outside of that, they're about the same.
Brian
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