[Kolab-devel] removal of legacy ftp support

Matt Douhan matt at fruitsalad.org
Sun Oct 3 09:19:06 CEST 2004


On Sunday 03 October 2004 05.24, Martin Konold wrote:
> I am considering to remove the ftp capability from Kolab 2.
>
> From a security point of view ftp was always a nightmare and I think that
> neither the ftp upload nor download features are required anymore.
>
> On one hand we will gain server generated free-busy lists with Kolab 2 and
> on the other we can use https and webdav as communication protocols for
> both uploads and downloads.
>
I thought this was needed for OL compat, has this changed? and if so how will 
that comms be handled?

I dont see an option for https in my OL clients, and it seems webdav needs a 
mapped drive to work properly.

rgds

Matt




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