10 Apr
2009
10 Apr
'09
1:24 p.m.
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 00:14 +0100, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
There's nothing badly wrong with FTP.
Apart from the plain text authentication. The out of band control channel making firewall/NAT traversal more difficult than it should be. Oh and no crc/error checking on the data stream.
No other than there there is nothing badly wrong with it at all.
There honestly is no reason whatsoever to use FTP now unless you are taking to some device that cannot support ssh/scp or TFTP boot of embedded devices or netbooting etc.