On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 06:26:00PM -0500, John C Klensin wrote: > --On Monday, November 30, 2020 23:38 +0100 Carsten Bormann > <cabo@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I believe a hard-earned piece of experience I took from using > > FTP is that you don't want to do conversions during transit. > > I think we had figured that out by early in 1971. At least in > general, I think it is still true. And yet, just recently on this mailing list, some of the people arguing for the inherent superiority of the ftp protocol as compared to http is that with ftp, it *Would* do conversions of text files (e.g., crlf mangling, etc.) Heh. - Ted
