Comment on How do you manage your server files?
blotz@lemmy.world 8 months agowhat! thats so dumb xD. so ftps stands for file transfer protocol secure, and sftp stands for ssh file transfer protocol? we have reached recursive acronyms.
Comment on How do you manage your server files?
blotz@lemmy.world 8 months agowhat! thats so dumb xD. so ftps stands for file transfer protocol secure, and sftp stands for ssh file transfer protocol? we have reached recursive acronyms.
kevincox@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Yup super confusing. The way I remember it is that
httpsishttp+ SSL softpsisftp+ SSL. The weird onesftpis an entirely different protocol that uses SSH to transfer files.blotz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Okay this has made it so much worse. i figured that the
sinhttpsandftpsstands forsecurelike a reasonable person. of course it doesnt xD. you would think that this is at least consistent but alas. guess whatsinsshdoesnt stand for :)kevincox@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I don’t know if the
sis actually “SSL” or “secure” but the point is that the are the same protocol, running over an encryption layer. So adding anssuffix is running the same protocol over some encrypted transport. You see thisssuffix for lots of things likeirc/ircsanddav/davs.This is different to
sftpwhich isn’t related toftpat all other than they are both protocols that transfer files.