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Bugtraq archives for 1st quarter (Jan-Mar) 1995: Re: another Web bitchout

Re: another Web bitchout

Stephen D. Williams (sdwlig.net)
Sat, 25 Feb 1995 17:48:47 +0000 (GMT) 

> 
> Whatever brilliant boy first implemented file access via FTP in a web browser
> should be taken out and beaten soundly about the noggin with rolled-up RFCs. 
> It maintains the one-connection-per-item paradigm, which is NOT the way FTP
> works, and everybody since then copied the method without THINKING first.
> 
> Thus, if you're logging FTP connections, you get six times more NOISE than
> necessary when some point-and-click lamer wants ONE lousy file.  Not to
> mention twice as much TCP setup overhead.
> 
> How hard would it be, once a browser realizes that it's talking to an FTP
> server, to just keep the control socket open?!  It's probably way too late to
> get it fixed by now, dammit.
> 
> _H*

You should ALWAYS go through a caching proxy like cern_httpd.  Not
only does it cache data for repeated access, it caches connections
to servers for ftp, http (I think), etc.

sdw
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