[Zope] OT: ftp vs scp

Oleg Broytmann Oleg Broytmann <phd@phd.pp.ru>
Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:57:51 +0300


OFFTOPIC.

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 02:43:14PM +0100, Mitch Pirtle wrote:
> Ftp is a bad habit, like smoking cheap cigarettes.  Move up
> to a big fat cigar, scp.
> 
> 	http://www.openssh.org/

   I disagree. You can run ftp-over-securechannel. But FTP is still better
tham scp (if you menat scp). FTP, for example, supports "reget" - i.e. it
can to restore (continue) aborted download. Scp cannot do it.

Oleg.
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