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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?"

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  1. Any Delphi programmers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm having problems with converting infix notation to postfix notation.

    I have tried creating a stack to store the operators in, and the operands are added to a string. However, I'm stuck with comparing the priorities of the operators among other things.

    Any ideas?

  2. Jealous? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I know you are.

    1. Re:Jealous? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I know you are..

  3. Re:In my opinion, by captain_craptacular · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Ahh, I always set hash on before command line ftping. Then I get to see the pretty #'s fly by...

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    They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty nor security
  4. Re:how about rsync? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Brilliant point. Too bad you don't have the +1 Karma bonus so more people would get to read it.

    Maybe you should buy this "premier" slashdot account on eBay.

  5. Obligatory non-committal response by slagish666 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Looking to serve files for downloading (typically 1MB-6MB)

    Lemme guess... MP3s?

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    "Consider the lillies of the goddamn field."
  6. In Soviet Union..... by Mr.+Troll · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    HTTP/FTP download YOU

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    Kiss my shiny metal ass
  7. Re:Http/Ftp which is slower? by JPriest · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    FTP uses UDP and gets modded "Score:3, Informative"? I though this was a technical news site.

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    Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
  8. Sneakernet by sulli · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Burn CDs of the data and hand them out.

    Better yet, if you have the budget, use iPods. Your users will thank you.

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    sulli
    RTFJ.
  9. lame in soviet russia joke by OverRated · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sorry. Couldn't resist.

    IN SOVIET RUSSIA - http fetches you!

  10. IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...we call it THE SOVIET UNION, you.

    Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.

    1. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

    2. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      This is the worst thread I've ever read in my life. First I'm going to turn the filter back on, then I'm going to shoot myself.

    3. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


      First I'm going to turn the filter back on, then I'm going to shoot myself.

      Don't use that water gun in this cold weather. You might get pneumonia!

  11. Http is the fastest IMHO. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  12. Re:Different, not better or wose by Skater · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    A friend of mine was over the other night scanning pictures for her website. Apparently her brother set up a website with FTP access for their family. I FTP'd the site (she was having trouble getting it to work, so I used command line FTP to test it), and logged in using anonymous.

    I then noticed that I was able to upload files (to any directory), download files (same), and delete files. As an anonymous user. In their web pages directory, too. Defacing that website would be so trivial that I doubt even the usual twits would bother.

    Nothing like waving a flag that says "Warez traders! Come here!"...

    --RJ

  13. What you have to do... by buck_wild · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...is get yourself some better pr0n! Jesus man, those better be picture files and not movies!

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    If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
  14. Re:FTP and You by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    if "Dislexic and proud ---Andy---" is your sig, stick in your bloody SIG!

  15. Re:Different, not better or wose by Blkdeath · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Why don't you tell us how to set it up then, fscktard.

    Why would I tell you how to do it, when I could charge you $60/hour to do it for you? I've already read the manuals, I already know what I'm doing.

    n.b. I charge a fee for computer instruction, too, but it's less than my service fee.

    If this doesn't interest you, try reading the documentation for your FTP server and firewall of choice. Get back to me when you've figured it out. You know who I am.

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    BD Phone Home!

    Shameless plug. Like you weren't expecting it.

  16. iSCSI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes definately need the C-64 chained up to iSCSI U the man! Got lots of old tapes that need to be transfered to the C-64 SAN yeah baby yeah!

  17. Re:Different, not better or wose -- WRONG!!! by joshsisk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And that's the level of insightful commentary I expect from someone posting at -1...