[Zope] OT: ftp vs scp

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 03:14:26PM +0100, Jerome Alet wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Oleg Broytmann wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 03:05:42PM +0100, Jerome Alet wrote:
> > > On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Oleg Broytmann wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 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.
> > > 
> > > rsync ?
> > 
> >    Possible, but what are benefits of rsync over FTP?
> 
> tunnelling over ssh or native rsync protocol
> transparent compression
> more easily scriptable

   FTP, on the other hand, has the advantages:

1. Interactiveness (directory listing).
2. Well-established.
3. Simple to implement.
4. Already there (in the Zope :)

Oleg.
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