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Re:Shutting down public FTP services by justinsaccount on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @10:06PM (#14199931)
Also disappeared when http 1.1 added range requests around 1999
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Re:Shutting down public FTP services by jwilk on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @04:38AM (#14201442)
HTTP/1.1 was published in 1997:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2068

But it probably took a few years to be universally adopted.

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Re:Shutting down public FTP services by tacticus on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @04:55AM (#14201516)
heh the shitty proxies i saw in uni still have issues with 1.1 5 years ago :(
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Re:Shutting down public FTP services by hobarrera on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @10:20PM (#14199985)
FTP has been obsolete since 1999 thanks to ssh/sftp.

It should have died along with RSH, but people insisted on keeping it alive.

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Re:Shutting down public FTP services by majewsky on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @06:04AM (#14201811)
SSH/SFTP is mostly for authenticated access. The submission is explicitly talking about "public FTP servers" (i.e. anonymous access).
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Re:Shutting down public FTP services by therein on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @06:00AM (#14201797)
How about the disaster that is FTPS, or even more confusing FTPES. What were they thinking.
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