Why FTP must die.
If the fact that the RFC is over 20 years old didn’t tell you how obsolete this protocol is, that acronym should certainly start ringing the alarms.
But just to reinforce it, the next section of the RFC discusses its history.
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FTP has had a long evolution over the years. Appendix III is a
chronological compilation of Request for Comments documents
relating to FTP. These include the first proposed file transfer
mechanisms in 1971 that were developed for implementation on hosts
at M.I.T. (RFC 114), plus comments and discussion in RFC 141.
But this would be a sad and pitiful rant indeed if I focused solely on the age of the protocol — after all, I’m older than it is (albeit just barely, if we take 1971 as the origin).
No, my reasons for disparaging FTP are more substantive.
