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FTP: Better Than HTTP, Or Obsolete?
An anonymous reader asks "Looking to serve files for downloading (typically 1MB-6MB), I'm confused about whether I should provide an FTP server instead of / as well as HTTP. According to a rapid Google search, the experts say 1) HTTP is slower and less reliable than FTP and 2) HTTP is amateur and will make you look a wimp. But a) FTP is full of security holes. and b) FTP is a crumbling legacy protocol and will make you look a dinosaur. Surely some contradiction... Should I make the effort to implement FTP or take desperate steps to avoid it?"
Use telnet and screen capture the VT100 Term buffer!
1-6mb files? :P
heh, most 1-6mb files I see are on irc fserves
1 to 6 megs, huh? Why not use Kazaa like everybody else? :-P
"If he thinks he can hide and run from the United States and our allies, he's sorely mistaken." Bush on bin Laden
"HTTP is amateur and will make you look a wimp"
You really gotta watch out for things like this. I know one guy that got a 'click me' sign on his back because he used HTTP instead of FTP.
Then report back to us in the first ever Answer Slashdot.
boldly going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse
Come on people, use the Z-Modem protocol. It can resume transmission on a file transfer where HTTP or FTP can not. The only way a FTP or HTTP can resume transmission is with the GetRight tool.
:) HA HA!
I remember in my days of BBSes with X and Y Modem, and then when Z-Modem showed up we all couldn't be happier. When some idiot in the house picked up the phone and disconnected you from hours and hours of downloading the latest Liesure Suite Larry, I just reconnected and started to resume my downloads (but only if I had enough credit, then I might have to upload some crap).
Why do we have all these new ask slashdot question that sounds like a tech with a years experience is asking how to do his job?
I vote for a new section, "How do I do my job" with a dollar bill as the logo.
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I don't know, after Rsync's last album I've decided that they're probably too old for serious contending in the boy-band heavy marketplace.
Let me get this straight. You went to search the web and got conflicting, likely ill-informed, and inconclusive reports. So you went to Slashdot?
Maybe I'm slow, but I havn't found a way to do batch file transfers with HTTP. There's just no way to do it without clicking on every single damn link, selecting "save as", and then downloading. Sure you can generally get several going at once, it's still not the same as selecting several folders and doing a batch transfer in my FTP client. Or is are there apps or methods of doing this for HTTP?
if you're using linux, you can use wget. and if you're on windows, you can get cygwin and then also use wget.. there's gotta be other utilities with the same features, but wget is definitely the classic and does pretty much everything you'd need.
when the rain comes, they run and hide their heads. they might as well be dead.
Just raise the taxes on crack.