Which protocol should I use for communication to central server?

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Patapon wrote:
> sftp or ftp or bzr, which one is the most reliable choice? I have tried
> Guildftp (A free and stable ftp server), and fails at
> bzr init-repo ftp://anonymous@localhost/proj
>


...

>       File "bzrlib\transport\ftp\__init__.pyo", line 569, in stat
>       File "bzrlib\transport\ftp\__init__.pyo", line 69, in __init__
>       File "ftplib.pyo", line 510, in size
>       File "ftplib.pyo", line 241, in sendcmd
>       File "ftplib.pyo", line 217, in getresp
>     error_proto

^- I'm not really sure what the error we are getting here is. However,
ftp isn't ever going to be the most recommended method anyway.

Off the cuff, I would recommend going with "bzr+ssh" as it is the
easiest to set up and administrate, has the most real-world usage, and
is going to perform better than any of the 'plain' transports (ftp,
http, sftp).

'bzr://' is about the same, but note that plain 'bzr://' doesn't do
authentication. So you almost definitely want either 'bzr+ssh' or
'bzr+http'. (That uses the http or ssh layers to do the authentication.)

There is a proposal to provide SSL connections for 'bzr://' (aka
bzrs://) and there is also a proposal to provide TLS and then direct
authentication support as part of bzr://. I don't think that is
completed yet.

John
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