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On 04/25/2017 05:29 PM, lee wrote: |
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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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Is this about security? Then the closest replacement is FTPS (aka SSL |
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FTP). It's just plain old FTP at its core, but over SSL. You do need an |
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FTP client that supports SSL though. You can configure it to only |
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encrypt passwords while the payload data remains non-encrypted. |
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There's also SFTP, but that's completely different (even though it has |
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"FTP" in the name, it's actually SSH, not FTP.) |
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And there's rsync too, which is for synchronization of files (only |
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changes are uploaded, not the whole data) which makes it very fast if |
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what you upload is intended to replace old data. |
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