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From: Simon Josefsson
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2024 08:29 Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 7/10/24 23:10, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > >> Move both to HISTORIC. Saying something is obsolete lets the new >> stuff arrive to replace it. > > I think it's the other way around. Something becomes obsolete after > something better arrives to replace it. > > So maybe TELNET is obsolete, but FTP isn't obsolete yet. What does FTP offer that SSH-based Secure FTP doesn't? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_File_Transfer_Protocol My perception is that most people have migrated away from ftp to http for the majority of use-cases (anonymous downloads), and to sftp for authenticated/encrypted use-cases. Rsync is also common, but not documented by the IETF at all. <tp>
Disagree. HTTP(S) is so complicated and the resultant downloaded file seems corrupt and unusable, at least when Windows is used to access it. HTTP works for HTML files, it fails for
plain text which I find is the best option for I-D
Tom Petch
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