A Better FTP?

Posted by Cliff on Monday October 29, 2001 @10:56PM from the we-can-rebuild-it-we-have-the-technology dept.

cppgodjavademigod asks: "I used to work for a company that sold a file transfer product for datacenters. It supported checkpoint/restart, encyrpted password transmition, asynchonous job procesing, etc. Is there an Open Source project that aims to provide a better FTP? I'm looking for something that makes use of multiple paths (for machines connected via more than one network), job restart, job control, secure transmission (over internet), maybe even tunneling over HTTP and redundant servers (via some kind of private P2P protocol)."

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Re:HTTP/1.1 by Slynkie · 2001-10-30 06:18 · Score: 3, Insightful

I'll be honest up front: I don't have a good comparison of either the features or performance of HTTP/1.1 vs. FTP.

That said, I have to wonder whether HTTP/1.1 could be a true solution, for the simple fact that HTTP was not created specifically for the purpose suggested. In addition, for future development purposes, would we really want to bog down HTTP with features not used in everyday web transactions?

*shrug*, just my initial thought, I might not have a clue what I'm talking about =)