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thristian on Jan 29, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: FTP Must Die

It's been a long time since I've been involved with transferring files to and from clients, but even five years or so ago I recall enabling IIS's WebDAV mode in preference to handling customer-support calls about getting FTP working. Of course, WebDAV is still a ball of horror, even if it's not as bad as FTP, so please let's all stick to SFTP from now on?

eli on Jan 29, 2012 [–]

So you had XP boxes connecting via WebDAV? I think I'd take FTP over having to support that.

thristian on Jan 30, 2012 | [–]

Indeed. It worked pretty well, actually - in the standard Windows Explorer 'mount network drive' dialog, you could type an HTTP URL and get an ordinary-looking Explorer window and drag files to and fro.

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