Posted by Sherm Pendley on 07/26/07 15:01

"asdf" <asdf@asdf.com> writes:

> Ok, point taken. You are right, the FTP content is being served via HTTP.

There's no such thing as "FTP content". If something is being served via
HTTP, there's no FTP server involved in the transaction at all.

> It's a fair assumption that the HTTP server is simply being pointed at their
> FTP server, or that the FTP server also serves via HTTP.

No it's not - if it's serving via HTTP, it's not an FTP server.

It's a fair assumption, given the hostname of "ftp", that there's *also* an
FTP server running on that host, but that fact has absolutely no bearing on
how the HTTP server behaves.

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