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0 pointsnexuist6y ago0 comments

> Many well maintained webpages will have to expend resources to migrate off ftp

Really, though? Are there any examples of any web pages that are strictly available from FTP instead of HTTP? If so, why? Isn’t HTTP made specifically for the purpose of transporting hypertext? Why use another, more general protocol when you can use the one made specifically for your use case?

I’m sure there’s good stuff on FTP still. I really, really doubt people are throwing SPAs and PWAs on FTP servers though.

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buildbuildbuild6y ago

I scrape municipal data sources of food and building code violations for a side project, much of the data is only available over FTP. I discovered several other cities’ data URLs by searching Google’s FTP index.

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0 pointsnexuist6y ago0 comments

> Many well maintained webpages will have to expend resources to migrate off ftp

I’m sure there’s good stuff on FTP still. I really, really doubt people are throwing SPAs and PWAs on FTP servers though.

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buildbuildbuild6y ago

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