[ih] FTP RIP

[scott weeks]

My apologies, I misunderstood the email.  Please ignore
me and I will head to the coffee pot...

scott




On 10/8/20 12:31 PM, scott weeks wrote:
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> On 10/8/20 9:15 AM, Steven G. Huter via Internet-history wrote:
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>> Open Science Grid published a document in December 2019 outlining a 
>> timeline to phase it out over the next two years and move to 
>> HTTP-based tools.
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>
> I sure hope they fail at that.  I use FTP all the time!  For example,
> I do this daily to store my ISP-assigned DHCP IP address.  I am
> not worried about security and the ISP will not support SCP/SFTP:
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>
> #!/usr/local/bin/python
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> from ftplib import FTP
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> with FTP(host='isp-server', user='me', passwd='my-passwd') as ftp:
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>     ftp.cwd('www')
>
>     with open('ip.txt', 'rb') as text_file:
>
>         ftp.storlines('STOR ip.txt', text_file)
>