Shutting down public FTP services

Re:Shutting down public FTP services by justinsaccount on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @10:02PM (#14199923)

> FTP has mget

Not quite, ftp CLIENTS have mget. The ftp protocol has absolutely no awareness of mget. In fact, ftp is terrible at downloading more than one file at a time because it has no concept of pipelining and keepalive, both things that http supports.

With a nice multi protocol client like lftp, http directory indexes work just like an ftp server:

  $ lftp http://http.debian.net/debian/
  cd: received redirection to `http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian/'
  cd ok, cwd=/debian
  lftp cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org:/debian> ls
  drwxr-xr-x  --  /
  -rw-r--r--         1.0K  2017-01-14 10:44  README
  -rw-r--r--         1.3K  2010-06-26 09:52  README.CD-manufacture
  -rw-r--r--         2.5K  2017-01-14 10:44  README.html
  -rw-r--r--          291  2017-03-04 20:08  README.mirrors.html
  -rw-r--r--           86  2017-03-04 20:08  README.mirrors.txt
  ..[snip]..
  lftp cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org:/debian> mget README*
  5315 bytes transferred
  Total 5 files transferred
  lftp cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org:/debian>

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Re:Shutting down public FTP services by anc84 on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @05:22AM (#14201635)

For anyone else wondering how to recursively download with this:

    lftp cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org:/debian> mirror doc
    Total: 2 directories, 43 files, 0 symlinks                             
    New: 43 files, 0 symlinks
    1031755 bytes transferred in 1 second (678.7 KiB/s)
    lftp cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org:/debian>

Warning, -R means reverse (upload!), not recursive. ;)

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Re:Shutting down public FTP services by Spiritus on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @02:25AM (#14200895)

Wow, I had no idea lftp had that feature. That's super cool.

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Re:Shutting down public FTP services by justinsaccount on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @09:18AM (#14202674)

lftp has a ton of features. background jobs, tab completion, caching of directory contents, multiple connections, parallel fetching of a SINGLE file using multiple connections.

Yes, it looks like '/usr/bin/ftp' from 1970, but it's far far far more advanced than that.

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