[OT]Re: XFree86 available via yum
Xose Vazquez Perez
xose at wanadoo.es
Fri Oct 24 03:09:20 UTC 2003
Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
>>the question is: why are they different?
> Because FTP was designed in the 70's or 80's as a file transfer
> protocol, and HTTP was designed in the early 90's as a hypertext
> transfer protocol. The two have different purposes, however
> nowadays there is some overlap of functionality between the
> protocols. I'm not sure why this matters however.
Better explication than in Comer and Stevens, my question was
about ftp and http servers :-)
> Because people wish to make web pages, and FTP doesn't serve web
> pages (although some browsers will render html pages as if they
> were web pages on a web server), and people also wish to make
> files available for download via FTP. Others prefer to make
> their files available for download using HTTP instead.
but my surprise was about why they weren't at same storage,
same sever with two daemons, easy!
>>why is closed http index and ftp is opened?.... X files, sources are
>>out there :-)
> I don't understand your question, can you reword it?
http index is closed, ftp isn't!. Not too difficult to guess
the people's home dirs.
> I've been using text mode web browsers since 1994, so I'm aware
> of their existance. A text mode web browser isn't a replacement
> for a text mode ftp client however, and never will be. Not in my
> eyes anyway.
I've been using GUI mode web browsers since Baron ;-)
> I don't really understand the point of your thread to be honest.
I need more lessons of english.
real question was: what is there in special in ftp server and http
server to be different?
-thanks-
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