Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: > On 25/04/2017 16:29, lee wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> since the usage of FTP seems to be declining, what is a replacement >> which is at least as good as FTP? >> >> I'm aware that there's webdav, but that's very awkward to use and >> missing features. >> >> > > Why not stick with ftp?
The intended users are incompetent, hence it is too difficult to use ... > Or, put another way, why do you feel you need to use something else? I don't want to use anything else. Yet even Debian has announced that they will shut down their ftp services in November, one of the reasons being that almost no one uses them. Of course, their application is different from what I'm looking for because they only have downloads and no uploads. However, another reason given was that ftp isn't exactly friendly to firewalls and requires "awkward kludges" when load balancing is used. That is a pretty good reason. Anyway, when pretty much nobody uses a particular software anymore, it won't be very feasible to use that software. > There's always dropbox Well, dropbox sucks. I got a dropbox link and it didn't work at all, and handing out the data to some 3rd party is a very bad idea. It's also difficult to automate things with that. -- "Didn't work" is an error.
