Re:Mozilla will remove FTP support in Firefox
by duskwuff on Friday March 20, 2020 @06:11PM
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Never happened because there was no use case for it.
FTP made some sense to have in a browser because it supported unauthenticated downloads.
SFTP, as a protocol which runs over SSH, basically requires authentication. (You could conceivably set up an SSH server to allow authentication against a "guest" user, but that gives security folks the heebie-jeebies.) So it doesn't really make sense to link to an SFTP resource in a web context, making it very low value to support in a browser.
FTP made some sense to have in a browser because it supported unauthenticated downloads.
SFTP, as a protocol which runs over SSH, basically requires authentication. (You could conceivably set up an SSH server to allow authentication against a "guest" user, but that gives security folks the heebie-jeebies.) So it doesn't really make sense to link to an SFTP resource in a web context, making it very low value to support in a browser.