Re: OT: FTP Servers

["Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr () ranum com>]

Paul Robertson wrote:
> _Try_ *really* hard to use an HTTP server, FTP is a horrible protocol.

Paul is absolutely correct. FTP is an evil, bad, nasty, P.O.S. protocol. If
an intern at Microsoft tried to come up with a file transfer protocol they
could hardly do as bad a job.

Here's a completely BOGUS argument you can use for why you should
not use FTP on a busy web server: because FTP uses a control channel
and a data channel, it uses 2 sockets for every connection. That's a
big <cough><choke> performance drain on a busy server.

...I've actually said that with a straight face and had people decide to
use http instead, so what the heck.. ;)

mjr. 
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Marcus J. Ranum                         http://www.ranum.com
Computer and Communications Security    mjr () ranum com

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