Comment 19 for bug 294709

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Peter Liepa wrote:
> In duplicate Bug #409507, Martin Pool asked: "Do you know what (FTP)
> server software it is?"
>
> I checked with my hosting provider and they said
>
> "Our servers use proftpd. http://www.proftpd.org/"
>
> I'm really impressed with how fast you've replied to my bug submission. I guess I'll keep an
> eye out for v1.18.
>
> I'm a little surprised that you haven't hit this sever problem long ago, but then again I
> know next to nothing about how FTP works and how many server implementations there are.
>

We've certainly hit servers that didn't support APPE (append) before.
Just that nobody cared enough to implement support for it. As usually
switching to sftp is a *much* better decision for a large variety of
reasons. (FTP also doesn't support partial *reads* which causes some
significant performance implications when fetching data from a repository.)

FTP as a protocol is not a rich protocol, and not particularly secure
(passwords are transmitted in plain-text across the wire).

It is supported, because it was possible to do so, but it certainly
isn't something we would specifically *recommend*.

John
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