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From: Jim Jagielski <jim@jaguNET.com>
Message-Id: <200505081734.j48HYA120421@devsys.jaguNET.com>
Subject: Re: Post-2.2 Thoughts
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Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 13:34:07 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <no.id> from "Paul Querna" at May 08, 2005 07:58:09 AM
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Paul Querna wrote:
> 
> I thought doing FTP would be interesting, and provide a good alternative
> for sites that are doing high volume anonymous FTP.  For example,
> consider mirror servers, which currently need two server programs and
> two configuration files. With 'httpd' one set of permissions and one
> config could serve both http and ftp.  I think its a cool application.
> 

It actually is. I'm excited about donating Covalent's mod_ftp module
which has been used (and still currently is) by many extremely high-end
FTP sites... As mentioned previously, once ERS3 is released by Covalent,
mod_ftp is likely to enter incubation (already rec'd positive votes by
both HTTPD PMC and Incubator PMC).


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