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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes: |
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> On 25/04/2017 16:29, lee wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> since the usage of FTP seems to be declining, what is a replacement |
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>> which is at least as good as FTP? |
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>> I'm aware that there's webdav, but that's very awkward to use and |
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>> missing features. |
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> Why not stick with ftp? |
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The intended users are incompetent, hence it is too difficult to use ... |
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> Or, put another way, why do you feel you need to use something else? |
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I don't want to use anything else. |
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Yet even Debian has announced that they will shut down their ftp |
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services in November, one of the reasons being that almost no one uses |
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them. Of course, their application is different from what I'm looking |
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for because they only have downloads and no uploads. |
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However, another reason given was that ftp isn't exactly friendly to |
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firewalls and requires "awkward kludges" when load balancing is used. |
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That is a pretty good reason. |
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Anyway, when pretty much nobody uses a particular software anymore, it |
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won't be very feasible to use that software. |
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> There's always dropbox |
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Well, dropbox sucks. I got a dropbox link and it didn't work at all, |
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and handing out the data to some 3rd party is a very bad idea. It's |
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also difficult to automate things with that. |
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"Didn't work" is an error. |
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