Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:49:16 -0400 From: Jamie Norwood <mistwolf@mushhaven.net> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPFW almost works now. Message-ID: <20010612164916.A73904@mushhaven.net> In-Reply-To: <200106122044.QAA93356@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:44:02PM -0400 References: <657B20E93E93D4118F9700D0B73CE3EA0166D97D@goofy.epylon.lan> <20010612152856.A72299@mushhaven.net> <3B267827.5090002@lmc.ericsson.se> <20010612162749.A73655@mushhaven.net> <200106122044.QAA93356@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:44:02PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:27:49 -0400, Jamie Norwood <mistwolf@mushhaven.net> said: > > > No, it has a host of limitations all it's own, not the least of which is > > that is is actually less efficient at transfering files, > > Balderdash! HTTP and TCP both send files over identical TCP > connections, which makes them equally efficient. There really is no > reason for FTP to continue to exist (but yet it does). OK, even not arguing the point, they are still quite different applications. FTP still very much serves a purpose. For one thing, uploading via HTTP is excessively non-trivial. For another, while Lynx and Links are well and good, browsing files from a text-only medium is also non-useful with the currently implementations of HTTP. Sure, when I am at a desktop, I use Netscrape/Exploder/Moz-ill-a to browse FTP sites, but it isn't feasible when I am looking on gnu.org for the source code to gcc/make/ whatnot. Jamie > > -GAWollman > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20010612164916.A73904>