Somehow I don't think crafting a link with a password in it is the best example for arguing for its place in the future :)
What sort of migration effort does this cause you?
Re:Deprecate FTP support (deprecated)
by nashashmi on Thursday October 15, 2020 @08:48AM
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Migration? You mean what other services I can use? If I have a 4 gb file, few services allow me to transfer such a heavy file. And when they do, it’s possible my client has that service blocked from their corporate system. Plus very few services allow me to send my clients a link where they can upload to. Again, if they do, it is blocked.
Ftp is never blocked.
> I know ftp is not secure
FTP isn't inherently insecure. The protocol supports TLS, Kerberos, GSSAPI. It is just that quite a few clients (including major web browsers) and servers don't implement those extensions, or even when they are implemented people don't know about them and don't use them. A lot of people are under the false impression that the only way to secure FTP is to move to SFTP.
Before file sharing went mainstream, before corporate networks allowed users to upload files to random websites, before file limits went away, before storage space became infinite, ftp was open and available to all people.
I actually had a client tell me that our corporate ftp server was blocked by their firewall. It turned out that they were just too lazy to type in the password. So I crafted a link with the password built in! That was how flexible ftp was!!!
And if I ever wanted someone to share files with me, I would send them the same ftp link with username and password built in, and tell them to paste it into windows explorer. And they could share files with me.
If the client wanted to send link to someone else for download, $he could!!!
That was how amazing ftp was. Everyone supported (except iOS). It was tried and proven.
I just don’t understand this idea behind letting it go.