Re: ftp.gnu.org "clisp clisp.lsm,1.11,1.12"

[Bruno H. <br...@cl...>]

Sam wrote:
> > It depends on the implementation of ftpd and httpd...
>
> so you are saying that FSF is running a "good" httpd but "bad" ftpd.

That's my assumption, yes. But you can certainly ask the FSF whether this
assumption is correct.

> Finally, FTP supports "ls" which http does not, which makes http more
> fragile because it depends on correctly created indexes...
> oh well.

Indexes?? That was in the past. Look at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/clisp/ -
you get the directory listing created dynamically by Apache. There is no
index file in this directory.

The only feature that the http access is missing is "ls" with arguments,
such as "ls -lrt".

Bruno