Re:Mozilla will remove FTP support in Firefox
by duskwuff on Friday March 20, 2020 @06:05PM
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FTP is FTP.
SFTP is SFTP -- a protocol which runs over SSH -- and Firefox doesn't support that. It wouldn't really make sense for it to do so, either; SFTP more or less requires SSH authentication, making it a poor fit for a web browser.
There is FTPS (FTP + SSL/TLS), which Mozilla might support -- but that's rather rare.
SFTP is SFTP -- a protocol which runs over SSH -- and Firefox doesn't support that. It wouldn't really make sense for it to do so, either; SFTP more or less requires SSH authentication, making it a poor fit for a web browser.
There is FTPS (FTP + SSL/TLS), which Mozilla might support -- but that's rather rare.