Re: large file transfers, was: Please admit defeat

On May 26, 2014, at 12:49 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:

> In message <0765BE57-6F41-46AE-9113-138960744683@gmail.com>, Yoav Nir writes:
> 
>> We moved to HTTP not because it was 
>> better, and not because of a lack of client support (all OSes have an 
>> FTP client, and all browsers support ftp:// URIs), but because everybody 
>> installed a firewall and half of those blocked FTP, but they all let 
>> HTTP through.
> 
> That really was a design-mistake in FTP to begin with, you can't blame
> that on HTTP.

What design mistake? 

Yoav

Received on Monday, 26 May 2014 10:00:44 UTC