[vidarh]

People didn't "solve" those problems so much as hack their way around them in a wide variety of ways with no standardization, that is the problem. Having to occasionally support customers that need FTP servers, I can tell you that it is a never-ending nightmare of incompatible clients, server settings that must be set differently depending on customer requirements just because of issues with FTP, and firewall problems (on the customers side, though it also creates hassles on our end).

Pretty much anything would be better than FTP.