Are you sure? I've ended up with partially transferred files when using FTP.
If I remember right, FTP simply blasts a file down a TCP connection. If
the connection is closed early, the file is closed "as is" by some
implementations.
I'm not willing to assume that an application is reliable just because it
uses TCP underneath. Nor is an application unreliable because it uses UDP
(like NFS, for instance).
Greg Hubbard
Predictive Systems
At 12:15 PM 3/4/99 -0500, Gaurav Nangia wrote:
>FTP is guaranteed to be error free because it is tcp based and there is an
>acknowlegement for all the frames without error. TFTP on the other hand is
>UDP based and is unreliable. Hence you cannot really guarantee that it is
>error free. As for the third one you mentioned, I am not sure what it is.
>
>Regards,
>Gaurav
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