tag:dashes.com,2009:/anil//1/tag:www.dashes.com,2005:/anil//1.2221- Comments for FTP-RPC A Blog About Making Culture Movable Type 4.3-en tag:www.dashes.com,2005:/anil//1.2221 2005-11-22T23:49:21Z 2005-11-22T23:58:23Z FTP-RPC Is FTP the worst web services interface ever? I've been publishing Froogle product lists (which I guess are now Google Base upload files) with Movable... Anil http://anildash.com/ Is FTP the worst web services interface ever? I've been publishing Froogle product lists (which I guess are now Google Base upload files) with Movable Type just as a proof of concept for a long time, but I always assumed at some point Froogle/Gbase/et. al would support Atom API for posting.

Now they've expanded the number of places they're using FTP as a web service, and it's kind of frustrating. To be fair, I understand why they might do that, and it's actually not even close to the worst web services interface ever. That honor would go to IMDb's email-based interface to database queries. The saddest part? I've actually used that feature.

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