2010/6/17 Bill Janssen <jans...@parc.com>: > There's a related meta-issue having to do with antique protocols.
Can I know what meta-issue are you talking about exactly? > FTP, for instance, was designed when the Internet had only 19 nodes connected > together with custom-built refrigerator-sized routers. A very early > experiment in application protocols. It does a few odd things that > we've since learned to be inefficient/unwise/unnecessary. Does it make > sense that Python support every part of it? Being FTP protocol still quite widespread I'd say it makes a lot of sense. That aside, what parts of urllib/http* are penalized because of FTP support? --- Giampaolo http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib http://code.google.com/p/psutil _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
