FTP Must Die

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submitted by gavinjoyce(25.7k) 4 years, 8 months ago

"FTP is an outdated, insecure, slow, unfriendly pig of a protocol. It's got no business being on the Internet in the 21st century."

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posted by rprouse(1175) 4 years, 8 months ago 0

Not sure how .NET related this is other than many web developers still use FTP. Good rant though. Wouldn't it be nice if Windows servers came with ssh/scp instead of FTP?

posted by gavinjoyce(25.7k) 4 years, 8 months ago 0

It's not really .NET related. I did enjoy it as a rant. I was really just looking for a story to post to test the (alpha) Kick Spy:

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posted by KirillOsenkov(570) 4 years, 8 months ago 0

I found this story very interesting. Indeed, they should come up with something more modern...

posted by chinhdo(395) 4 years, 8 months ago 0

It would be nice if the article talked about some modern alternatives for FTP.

posted by gazelem67(100) 4 years, 8 months ago 0

I'll just have to disagree with this one, okaaayyy?

FTP is anything but perfect, and it certainly isn't "sexy" like many other technologies, but like HTTP, SMTP, etc. it's a proven and reliable technology that is readily available in any platform whatsoever. I happen to like FTP for that very reason. It's stable and standard.

posted by cdjaco(5) 4 years, 8 months ago 0

I'm with gazelem67; FTP is a stable protocol with a long, successful track record. I don't use it often, but when I do I seldom have a problem. The author concludes that FTP is "outdated, insecure, slow, unfriendly" -- the same could be said for Morse Code, for instance. Does that mean Morse Code is irrelevant or useless? Hardly. Like FTP, Morse Code fits the bill in a particular niche. Additionally, just as painful command-line FTP operations led to smart FTP clients, the agonizing and error-prone process of keying Morse Code eventually drove the development of automatic Morse Code transmitters.

Now if we were talking about Gopher, I might be more inclined to agree. :)

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