Submission + - How reliable is FTP?
NetKidoo writes: Hi Slashdot Community,
I am a software engineer. Recently there was an incident at my work regarding FTP. When we release our final work product to our clients the usual procedure is as follows:
1. Test the final work product
2. Upload this to an FTP server
3. Download this from FTP Server
4. Do a validation of this downloaded work product.
It happened that one of my colleagues objected to my way of doing this. He was of the opinion that this is redundant effort which I was putting to validate the downloaded work product from FTP server.
What does the community feel about this? Though logically it appears there can be nothing wrong with this, Can there be any issues if I do not do this so called 'redundant' validation? I would be very interested to hear from the Geeks of slashdot community.
Thanks
~Netkidoo