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0 pointsantisol4y ago0 comments

>I just don't see many use cases for FTP anymore

I'm seeing this a lot today. It's almost like people have forgotten what FTP stands for.

The use case is transferring files.

>Why would you choose FTP at this point over HTTP(S), SFTP, BitTorrent, etc.?

Because I don't have a client for any of the others installed

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da_chicken4y ago

> The use case is transferring files.

Yes, and it's not particularly unique or well suited to that task over any other protocol.

> Because I don't have a client for any of the others installed

Then I guess you can use telnet for FTP as well as web browsing.

kragen4y ago

> Yes, and it's not particularly unique or well suited to that task over any other protocol.

When the files are on an FTP server it is. And given that there are more than a million anonymous FTP servers on the internet today, there are a lot of files that are on FTP servers.

antisolOP4y ago

who said I have telnet installed?

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