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Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests
From: Joe Abley <jabley () hopcount ca>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:33:58 -0400
On 22 Apr 2009, at 10:42, Joe Greco wrote:
While HTTP remains popular as a way to interact with humans, especially if you want to try to do redirects, acknowledge license agreements, etc., FTP is the file transfer protocol of choice for basic file transfer, and can be trivially automated, optimized, and is overall a good choice for filetransfer.Does anyone know what "FTP" stands for, anyways? I've always wondered...
:-)I was mainly poking at the fact that Bill seemed to be comparing SSL- wrapped file transfer with non-SSL-wrapped file transfer, but I'm intrigued by the idea that FTP without SSL might be faster than HTTP without SSL, since in my mind outside the minimal amount of signalling involved they both amount to little more than a single TCP stream. Bill sent me a link to a paper. I will read it.
However, I take some small issue with the assertion that FTP is easier to script than HTTP. The only way I have ever found it easy to script FTP (outside of writing dedicated expect scripts to drive clients, which really seems like cheating) is to use tools like curl, and I don't see why HTTP is more difficult than FTP as a protocol in that case. Perhaps I'm missing something.
Joe
Current thread:
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests, (continued)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests Matthew Palmer (Apr 21)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests Ricky Beam (Apr 21)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests Lionel Elie Mamane (Apr 24)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests Chris Adams (Apr 21)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests bmanning (Apr 21)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests Joe Abley (Apr 22)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests bmanning (Apr 22)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests bmanning (Apr 22)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests Joe Greco (Apr 22)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests Karl Auer (Apr 22)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests Joe Abley (Apr 22)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests Nathan Ward (Apr 22)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests Jo Rhett (Apr 23)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests Jo Rhett (Apr 23)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests Perry Lorier (Apr 24)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests Kevin Oberman (Apr 24)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests Randy Bush (Apr 24)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests Robert E. Seastrom (Apr 30)
- RE: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests Justin Horstman (Apr 30)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests Jon Lewis (Apr 21)
- Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests Jo Rhett (Apr 21)