Subj : Re: computers
To   : Spaceboy
From : tenser
Date : Sat Jul 20 2024 11:29:05

On 19 Jul 2024 at 10:22p, Spaceboy pondered and said...
 
 Sp>   Re: Re: computers
 Sp>   By: tenser to Nightfox on Sat Jul 20 2024 06:24:46
 Sp> 
 Sp>  > We had that before the web; people ran public anonymous FTP
 Sp>  > servers running at many, if not most, sites well before the
 Sp>  > web was a thing.  It was common to create directories for
 Sp>  > users so that they could drop things into that part of the
 Sp>  > filesystem exposed to anon FTP; lots of stuff got shared that
 Sp>  > way.
 Sp> 
 Sp> Is ftp not still commonly used this way? I have found a lot of stuff
 Sp> recently and am damn grateful we still have it around. All the http
 Sp> stuff is bloated and inefficient nowadays. Efficiency=elegance?

Some people still do, I suppose, but honestly, _modern_ HTTP
is probably better than FTP at this point.  FTP is kind of an
add protocol, that spends a lot of time sending text data
about ports to connect to and so on over a "control" channel,
and doing data transfer over transient "data" connections.
HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 are much more efficient, channelizing a
single logical connection.

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