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Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support by haileys on Friday January 20, 2023 @06:58PM (#34462015)
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.
Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support by spydum on Friday January 20, 2023 @08:55PM (#34462969)
Ftp is dead, just enterprise and mid level companies won't let go. It boggles the mind why it has persisted so long.
Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support by eppp on Friday January 20, 2023 @09:43PM (#34463311)
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.
Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support by LilBytes on Friday January 20, 2023 @11:19PM (#34463846)
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.
Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support by sitkack on Friday January 20, 2023 @10:07PM (#34463465)
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