Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support
by snickerbockers on Friday January 20, 2023 @05:46PM
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i'm still angry at mozilla and google for deprecating that, being able to set up a simple anonymous FTP server and send normies a link to it that they can open in their browsers was really convenient. Now if I want to use FTP i have to explain to them that they have to copy it into the windows file explorer or download filezilla.
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I didn't even use it all that often but, yes, I also feel like this was useful to have. Every now and again I come across an ftp site that I now have to copy into a dedicated program instead.
Why not an HTTP server with a directory index?
FTP is a pretty clunky protocol: it's round-trip heavy, not friendly to NAT on the client-side when you don't use PASV, not friendly to firewalls on the server-side when you do. I'm not sure what benefits there are to it these days.
Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support
by doublepg23 on Friday January 20, 2023 @07:43PM
(#34462447)
Yeah a simple `python3 -m http.server` works pretty well.
Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support
by champtar on Saturday January 21, 2023 @03:33AM
(#34464880)
Python http.server doesn't handle concurrent requests, so it works pretty well until it doesn't. Example don't use it to serve an ISO to iLO/iDRAC, boot will fail.
Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support
by saagarjha on Saturday January 21, 2023 @03:45AM
(#34464926)
I believe this was updated in a recent version of Python to use threads.
Ftp is dead, just enterprise and mid level companies won't let go. It boggles the mind why it has persisted so long.
There is tons of old crappy software that cannot understand anything else, so it persists. Like fax machines.
Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support
by Geezus-42 on Friday January 20, 2023 @10:06PM
(#34463460)
Though I typically use rsync these days, FTP can be useful for copying files to and from a Linux server when the client is a Windows machine.
Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support
by Kim_Bruning on Friday January 20, 2023 @10:25PM
(#34463554)
Recent windows versions natively support ssh, scp, sftp on the command line.
The types of companies that use Windows will atypically take a long time to get on a modern version for their stack. Desktop fleet withstanding.
But how can we pop a box without have wuftpd installed?
Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support
by password4321 on Friday January 20, 2023 @09:29PM
(#34463216)
https://github.com/sigoden/dufs
A file server that supports static serving, uploading
MIT/Apache-2 in Rust
Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support
by tannhaeuser on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:40AM
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Not just FTP is being deprecated, but WebDAV (DeltaV) is deeply based on Apache's mod_dav_svn subversion integration as well. WebDAV maps over regular HTTP GET/POST routes to provide quite sophisticated versioning of web resources at the same endpoint using just additional HTTP verbs (though also is/was often routed at URLs with a special prefix).
Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support
by mickael-kerjean on Saturday January 21, 2023 @08:28AM
(#34466282)
I made one of these online tool from which you can create deep links to an FTP server like this: https://demo.filestash.app/login?type=ftp&hostname=ftp.gnu.o...
It works not only with ftp but sftp, s3, webdav and pretty much any other storage backend you can think of.