14 Feb
2003
14 Feb
'03
3:21 p.m.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/13/2132221
An anonymous coward 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?"
So what's the general opinion about FTP vs. HTTP in the GNU/Linux environment?
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