RFC: accessing FTP tree through HTTP

Juraj Lutter otis at wilbury.sk
Sun Jan 27 15:01:51 PST 2008


Rudolf Cejka wrote:
> Cristian KLEIN wrote (2008/01/27):
>> all) don't give access to the FTP tree through HTTP. For example, if I type 
>> in my browser http://ftp.freebsd.org, I get the FreeBSD Project Page, 
>> whereas I would have expected a directory listing of the FTP tree (like 
>> http://ftp1.ro.freebsd.org/).
> 
> The other method is to use /pub URI, for example
> http://www.cz.freebsd.org/pub/.


Only if you run www on the same host as ftp. Anyway, 
http://ftp.sk.freebsd.org/ makes more sense in this context.

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