On 7/5/24 04:52, Dave Cridland wrote:
I appreciate the dry humour here, but I worry that some won't see the obvious allusion to the overwhelming success of WebDAV.
While I recognize the similarity between the two, IMO FTP and WebDAV were really designed to solve different problems, or be deployed in different environments.
Perhaps more to the point, WebDAV is perhaps even more baroque than FTP is. But FTP's features were actually needed when it was invented and people routinely had a genuine need to transfer files between machines using different character sets, byte sizes, record-oriented file formats, stream file formats, etc., as well as a need to faithfully transfer files between machines using the same operating system. WebDAV is baroque for no good reason I've ever understood.
Keith
