Re:Mozilla will remove FTP support in Firefox
by tyingq on Friday March 20, 2020 @05:48PM
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Plaintext passwords over the net. Also, it's somewhat painful for NAT because it opens up a second port that isn't a named one, the client sends that port number to the server, then the server opens a connection to the client.
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Re:Mozilla will remove FTP support in Firefox
by duskwuff on Friday March 20, 2020 @05:53PM
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That's for active FTP, which basically nobody uses anymore (since it's incompatible with most firewalls).
Most clients use the passive FTP extension, in which the server sends the client a host/port pair to connect to for the data connection. Still painful, but slightly less so.