- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 09:49:37 +0000
- To: Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com>
- cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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