Firefox 88 to Disable FTP Next Week With Full Removal Set for June

[sdf]

No good reasons? BS. I serve old Macintosh software to the public via FTP. No login require, nobody is going to give two shi** if it's encrypted or not.

Best reason to use ftp sites for downloads instead of web servers in decades has been that you the default settings for Apache weren't right for driving a file server-type site. You should just have to configure virtual indexing and server mime types.

Nobody's requiring you to stop sharing via ftp for pre-browser Macs, remember. You'll just need to provide a website as well for anyone using Firefox (and other browsers going forward).

 

[Shirasaki]

Here's the original FTP specification. Look at the date.

RFC 114: File Transfer Protocol

File Transfer Protocol (RFC 114, )

tools.ietf.org

It does receive several updates as current as 2014. It’s not like this protocol is never updated.

 

[Rigby]

It does receive several updates as current as 2014. It’s not like this protocol is never updated.

I know. Just thought it was funny that this article was posted exactly on FTP's 50th birthday.

 

[Nermal]

Sad in a way for those of us who well remember using DOS and Win 3.1 based FTP clients. But, today I learned... that the gopher:// protocol actually still exists within an "enthusiast" group. Wow.

I wrote a Gopher server a couple of years ago while teaching myself sockets. If I recall correctly, it used 4k of disk space and 11k of RAM; a far cry from 'modern' protocols!

 

[MacBH928]

SCP or SFTP (which are based on the SSH protocol). Or, if you want to use a browser, simply HTTP.

like there is SCP and SFTP upload software like CuteFTP? or its all in browser now?

 

[Rigby]

like there is SCP and SFTP upload software like CuteFTP? or its all in browser now?

Not sure if I understand the question correctly, but you obviously need an SCP/SFTP client to use these protocols. Most server admins probably use the command line clients, but there are also some GUI clients.

 

[dukeblue219]

like there is SCP and SFTP upload software like CuteFTP? or its all in browser now?

WINSCP is one of a million examples. But most websites aren't managed by uploaded static assets anymore. It's all done through a CMS using HTTPS

 

[MacBH928]

Not sure if I understand the question correctly, but you obviously need an SCP/SFTP client to use these protocols. Most server admins probably use the command line clients, but there are also some GUI clients.

WINSCP is one of a million examples. But most websites aren't managed by uploaded static assets anymore. It's all done through a CMS using HTTPS

Oh ok, so its the same thing except for the technology happening the background. I see Transmit does the same you just choose if you want it to be over FTP or SFTP.

 

[DStaal]

like there is SCP and SFTP upload software like CuteFTP? or its all in browser now?

From their website - CuteFTP supports SFTP.

Most 'FTP' clients do these days.