On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:42:44 EDT, Joey Mengele said:
I disagree, read the RFC. There are plenty of more secure FTP
clients such as the OpenSSH.com groups proactive secure Secure
FTP
(sftp) implementation of FTP.
Right, except that SFTP isn't the RFC959 protocol that lives on
ports 20/21,
it's an entirely different protocol layered on top of the OpenSSH
on port 22.
If you actually *do* "read the RFC", RFC959, section 4.1.1 says: