Firefox To Remove Support For the FTP Protocol
'Mozilla has announced plans to remove support for the FTP protocol from Firefox. Going forward, users won't be able to download files via the FTP protocol and view the content of FTP links/folders inside the Firefox browser. From a report: "We're doing this for security reasons," said Michal Novotny, a software engineer at the Mozilla Corporation, the company behind the Firefox browser. "FTP is an insecure protocol and there are no reasons to prefer it over HTTPS for downloading resources," he said. "Also, a part of the FTP code is very old, unsafe and hard to maintain and we found a lot of security bugs in it in the past." Novotny says Mozilla plans to disable support for the FTP protocol with the release of Firefox 77, scheduled for release in June this year.' -- source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/03/19/169246 There's always FileZilla... Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 08:50:57 +1300, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'"FTP is an insecure protocol and there are no reasons to prefer it over HTTPS for downloading resources'
True that. HTTPS is fine for unauthenticated downloads, and you can even use it for authenticated ones if you want. Alternatively, there’s SFTP, part of SSH, for doing secure, authenticated uploads and downloads. There was a thing called FTP-over-SSL/TLS. It was extremely fiddly and troublesome to set up. I never want to see it again.
On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 08:50:57 +1300, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'Mozilla has announced plans to remove support for the FTP protocol from Firefox.'
Looks like both Mozilla and Google are delaying the termination of FTP, in view of the current situation <https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/15/ftp_chrome_deprecation_on_hold/>.
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