News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90. Parent comment

Re:Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90 by antisol on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @05:27PM (#27899606)
>I just don't see many use cases for FTP anymore

I'm seeing this a lot today. It's almost like people have forgotten what FTP stands for.

The use case is transferring files.

>Why would you choose FTP at this point over HTTP(S), SFTP, BitTorrent, etc.?

Because I don't have a client for any of the others installed

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90 by da_chicken on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @11:32PM (#27902052)
> The use case is transferring files.

Yes, and it's not particularly unique or well suited to that task over any other protocol.

> Because I don't have a client for any of the others installed

Then I guess you can use telnet for FTP as well as web browsing.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90 by kragen on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @02:22PM (#27910039)
> Yes, and it's not particularly unique or well suited to that task over any other protocol.

When the files are on an FTP server it is. And given that there are more than a million anonymous FTP servers on the internet today, there are a lot of files that are on FTP servers.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90 by antisol on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:58AM (#27903954)
who said I have telnet installed?
[ Parent | on HN ]