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Comment by zdw

And can't go away soon enough.

Not NAT friendy. Needs special workarounds on firewalls. Not IPv6 friendly. Sends everything in the clear. No compression support. Different binary and text transfer modes. All the "fixes" to it are hacks that cause interoperability issues.

FTP is the fax machine of the internet. People still use it, but anyone with a clue hates it.

parent zdw 15 years ago

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