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Re:Shutting down FTP services by sp332 on Saturday January 28, 2017 @02:04PM (#13508093)
It's still a little kludgy, but it got a lot better in November when Firefox joined Chrome and Edge in implementing "folder upload". https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/50#File...
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Re:Shutting down FTP services by johannes1234321 on Saturday January 28, 2017 @02:56PM (#13508666)
In the use case of kernel.org a folder download feature would be needed, maybe even recursive.
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Re:Shutting down FTP services by mricon on Saturday January 28, 2017 @03:53PM (#13509203)
We offer rsync for that purpose.
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Re:Shutting down FTP services by sp332 on Saturday January 28, 2017 @07:00PM (#13510543)
Good point, I didn't really think of that. I have used wget -r but that's not very HTML 5 lol
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