[Kolab-devel] removal of legacy ftp support

Bernhard Reiter bernhard at intevation.de
Sun Oct 3 21:19:00 CEST 2004


On Sunday 03 October 2004 09:19, Matt Douhan wrote:
> 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?

Ftp was only for upload, with server generated fb lists, 
uploads are not necessary anymore.
So there does not need to be a replacement.

The legacy option for http download of fbs still seem
to be useful, though.
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