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Bennett Todd ([email protected]) wrote: > 2000-08-30-04:01:32 Peter van Dijk: > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:43:08PM -0400, Bennett Todd wrote: > > > ftp can't be name-virtual-hosted. It is also such a wretched > > > protocol that it urgently needs to be retired in all settings for > > > all purposes. > > > > Theoretically, you could do the same with ftp as with pop3 - use > > usernames like '[email protected]'. > > That doesn't help the perceived need among folks who insist on > supporting ftp; if they are selling a website www.naughtybits.dom > then they want to have a related ftp server ftp.naughtybits.dom. As > there's no way for the ftp server to tell which hostname the client > used to reach the IP addr, name virtual hosting doesn't make this > possible. > > The big difference between pop (where logging in with > [email protected] works fine for name virtual hosting) and ftp is > that pop is a private service, where some folks like to use ftp as a > public service without authentication. > > I'd still put little weight on folks advocating and encouraging > the use ftp, but the same point can [sadly] be made much more > effectively with https. IP virtual hosts are where it's at for the > time being. > And lets not forget traffic accounting as well. ;-) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ron Rosson ... and a UNIX user said ... The InSaNe One rm -rf * [email protected] and all was /dev/null and *void() ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Guns don't kill people, loony professors kill people.
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