New FTP server for free software downloads

[princi...@gmail.com]

Dear All,

Here is a new anonymous ftp server for many of your freesoftware downloads.

ftp://infinity.kmeacollege.ac.in

Rajesh

[Ivan Shmakov]

>>>>> principalkec <princi...@gmail.com> writes:

[Cc: news:comp.protocols.tcp-ip.]

> Here is a new anonymous ftp server for many of your freesoftware
> downloads.

> ftp://infinity.kmeacollege.ac.in

Apparently, it's also an HTTP server:

http://infinity.kmeacollege.ac.in/

The FTP protocol, whose current specification (RFC 959 [1]) was
published back in October 1985, is long time obsolete for most
common purposes. It lacks many conveniences of the
now-ubiquitous HTTP protocol (like proper MIME type encoding and
unambiguous time stamps), while having several idiosyncrasies of
its own, like having three (!) data transmission modes, and
using separate connections for command and data transfer, thus
demanding for explicit support from routers doing transport
(port) address translation (variously known as NAT or PAT.)

It's not uncommon for HTTP proxies to support the FTP protocol
as well. It means that there're FTP users that actually use
HTTP clients to communicate to FTP servers. Such a protocol
conversion is, however, prone to errors, since the target FTP
server and the HTTP proxy may be configured to support
different, and incomparable, data transmission modes.

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc959

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