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blowski
on March 20, 2016
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$ cat ~/myfile | curl -X PUT --upload-file “-” htt...
What's the advantage of doing this instead of just using SCP or SFTP?
moonshinefe
on March 20, 2016
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With SFTP and SCP you need to run a daemon on the hosting machine, and create credentials for the other user to login so it's a bunch of extra steps.
For a lot of people with firewalls and no root / admin access, it becomes a major pain.
z3t4
on March 21, 2016
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It's kinda funny that everything runs on port 80/443 now a days because of this.
stephenboyd
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People who doesn't even know what a text shell is can just drag a file icon onto the page to upload. No accounts or passwords are involved at either end, so it's about as frictionless as possible.
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