I cannot for the life of me remember the last time I landed on a page with FTP or had to use FTP in any way. Even lists of file downloads are http pages where I just click on the file.
* ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/ – also available as http://ftp.isc.org/isc/
* ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/pub/ – only available as FTP
For the O’Reilly URI, it’s convenient to be able to click on directory links in the browser and then open HTML and PDF files without requiring another program.
So, it’s nice to have native FTP handling in Firefox for the odd time I’d use it but I can understand why Mozilla decided to remove it.
Seems legit.
I mean, it's opposed by the argument that it used to be popular. It's a pretty low bar.
FTP is a protocol that dates to when NCP was the protocol suite that ran the Internet. It was retrofitted to TCP/IP. That's why there's a command session and a data session. The protocol is so old that it dates to a time when IP+port was the unique identifier for a half-duplex connection. Nobody even uses active FTP anymore because everyone has firewalls now.
It's not like web browsers have added SFTP support. They haven't even added FTPS support (either flavor) as far as I'm aware. I just don't see many use cases for FTP anymore. Why would you choose FTP at this point over HTTP(S), SFTP, BitTorrent, etc.?
The last system I used that required FTP actually used implicit FTPS. Worse, when the vendor implemented SFTP to replace FTPS like their customers had been demanding, they actually implemented Simple File Transfer Protocol (i.e., RFC 913) and not SSH File Transfer Protocol. I wish I were joking.
I'm seeing this a lot today. It's almost like people have forgotten what FTP stands for.
The use case is transferring files.
>Why would you choose FTP at this point over HTTP(S), SFTP, BitTorrent, etc.?
Because I don't have a client for any of the others installed
I can’t think of a scenario where I would need FTP in 2021. Can you point me at one?
ftp://ftp.kontron.com/Products/Motherboards/Industrial/D3544-S_Mini-STX/Documentation/ ftp://ftp.panasonic.com/pub/panasonic/call_center/firmware/
One advantage of ftp is that it is much easier to have access control on different resources than dealing with .htaccess files so it was popular with customer service.
The consequence will be that many ftp servers still hosting software/firmware for legacy products will be taken down and their content lost.
Archive of apple 2 software and documentation. I use it a lot.
Oh Wow! cool! I'm so impressed!
So what you're saying is that because you "use the internet a lot" that you know everything about the requirements, hardware, software, and most importantly limitations of every single internet user on (and off!) the planet.
I guess I should at least give you some credit for not having any problems with self-doubt.
I had to use it this past weekend to get some firmware from the vendor for a network switch. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not that I'll really miss it in Firefox but still...
