Re: [dev] upload via html?

From: Anselm R Garbe <garbeam_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 17:21:29 +0200

On 14 May 2013 17:12, Christoph Lohmann <20h_AT_r-36.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 May 2013 17:12:18 +0200 Martti Kühne <mysatyre_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>> How is lack of a standard a problem in that concern? The topic was
>> about uploads, and even my cfw cgi server [0] supports uploads and you
>> could just go and implement a sufficiently featured directory listing
>> that fits your needs with it. If you helped me implement sessions, we
>> might even go do user logins and specify private/shared space.
>
> Damn, my head hurts. Just use fucking FTP. It has sessions, encryption,
> (somewhat) standardized directory listenings, separate file transfer,
> progress bars (client feature) and everything you need to add yet anoth‐
> er hack to the web.
>
> Do we really need a revamp of FTP so people will start reusing a dedi‐
> cated protocol for this? SSL in CIFS maybe?

You could as well consider 9P.

Best regards,
Anselm
Received on Tue May 14 2013 - 17:21:29 CEST

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