Re: ftp by Sunil Nimmagadda

[Fernando Gont <fgont%si6networks.com@localhost>]

On 16/5/19 21:17, Robert Elz wrote:
>     Date:        Thu, 16 May 2019 21:40:39 +0200
>     From:        Maxime Villard <max%m00nbsd.net@localhost>
>     Message-ID:  <62e8204b-bee5-24f4-c99d-196f0ca55ec2%m00nbsd.net@localhost>
> 
>   | We are in 2019, and some people are still wasting their time rewriting FTP
>   | clients.
> 
> FTP is still a much better protocol (actually designed by people who
> knew what they were doing) over the alternative (HTTP) which was just
> thrown together without almost any real understanding of some of the
> implications (which later versions have been trying to fix).

That looks like a claim that would be quite hard to back. As a
datapoint, using layer-3 and layer-4 objects on an layer-7 protocol
doesn't seem that the right thing to do...

Thanks,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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