On 8/12/2020 1:42 AM, Tony Langdon wrote:
Yeah, that's a bit odd. FTP has a long history and works well.
The browser makers are pushing for secure connections for everything.
If you're downloading fron an FTP (non-S) site, then a man in the middle
can inject a virus into your download.
HTTP(S) is pretty efficient for downloads, and barring a couple of FTP features works as well for most users... and by most, really all but a
very tiny fraction of users and browsers never supported those features
in the first place.
They want to dump what is effectively a lot of (mostly unmaintained)
code, for an insecure protocol that almost nobody uses in the wild.
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