Re: Small web protocols / alternative protocols

not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) writes:

What about FTP itself? I love a good anonymous FTP site, especially
instead of trying to recursively download parts of a website
without programs accidentally attempting to download the entire
internet. There's also FTPS for encryption-obsessives.

Good old not broken browsers supported FTP and we did not think much
about occasionally finding html being addressed via FTP URLs in the
young web.  FTP just was there, people knew to use it and lots already
had some FTP space via work and/or the university long before they got
"webspace".

I'd add it for nostalgia.

A FTP server is simple enough to be written (good enough, not feature
complete) in some hands full of code in e.g. Lua to get a FTP server on
a NodeMCU board.  I haven't tried it in MicroPython, but I wouldn't be
surprised if someone did it.

I'm not especially a Smolnet fan I just want back the diversity of the
old internet days.  Mono-cultures kill evolution.

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