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Re: Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service

Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> Tue, 17 November 2020 21:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service
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From: Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com>
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On 11/17/20 4:32 PM, Adam Roach wrote:

>
> It could be tuned up a bit by asking the tools team to turn 
> "Last-Modified"/"If-Modified-Since" header handling on for 
> https://www.ietf.org/ (which would make the command above act 
> substantially more like rsync).

Last-Modified (at least) should be regarded as absolutely essential.  
Again, these dates are sometimes important for patent litigation purposes.

(It would be worth keeping FTP for that reason alone if the HTTP server 
doesn't support Last-Modified)

Keith

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