I'd like to point out that SFTP isn't really "superior". It's much, much more secure, but it's not "superior" to FTP. It has commands that are similar to FTP, but it's not completely command-compatible, and there are a LOT of things that FTP can do that SFTP can not.
I recently had to move some Expect scripts over from using FTP to SFTP, and it was a royal pain in the ass. In general I'm not very impressed with SFTP. It seems to be someone's weekend project, not a fully functional subsystem. If you need an example just look at the output, and try to suppress/redirect it in a useful manner. Then try the same with FTP. SFTP could really use some community effort in improving it, especially considering that a lot of businesses (like Sprint) are using it heavily in-house.
Jeffrey.
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Ed Allen [email protected] wrote:
It appears to have changed while I was using the superior SFTP. It *used to be* entirely UDP.
I suppose that since every machine now has TCP it was decided to be a better file transfer protocol.
Thanks for the concise correction.