[c-nsp] Feedback on upcoming removal of FTP access to secured software

[Chris Adams]

I don't disagree with this change being a problem, but...

Once upon a time, William F. Maton Sotomayor <wmaton at ryouko.imsb.nrc.ca> said:
> FTP has been indispensible, especially considering how much larger the 
> images are getting and FTP's transfer efficiencies over HTTP start to 
> show.

"FTP's transfer efficiencies over HTTP"?  A TCP socket is a TCP socket.
An HTTP transfer of a file (not including things like logins and such)
requires less communication than FTP.  HTTP opens a socket, sends a few
dozen bytes of request, and gets the file.  FTP opens a socket, has to
log in (even for "anonymous" FTP), has to request the file, open a
second socket for the data transfer, and then gets the file.

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.