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Currently people can access FTP list and download resources hosted on FTP servers in Chrome through FTP URLs, but this may not work anymore in the near future. In a post published by Chrome engineers, there is a plan to deprecate FTP support in Chrome version 82.
The major motivation for this deprecation is that Chrome doesn't have an encrypted FTP connection support(FTPs), this raises security risk of downloading resources over FTP. Since users can access FTP URLs and download resources, there is no encryption of the data which indicates any sensitive information would be exposed to middle man attack. There are other vulnerabilities as well.
[...] The deprecation will start from Chrome version 82 planned to be released in 2020 Q2.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by DannyB on Monday August 19 2019, @03:06PM (6 children)
The FTP client is dead. Corporate IT departments reject its installation. Why? Because Source Forge in their infinite wisdumb packaged the FTP client for Windows with an installer that "bundled" all kinds of sharknado goodfulness. The FTP client wasn't the only software that they provided this crapware delivery service for. Oh, and why? Because --> Advertising! The evil that will destroy the intarweb tubes.
Wha, wu, wuh's that? Other FTP clients you say? Are there actually any? For Windoze?
Or you could just not use FTP servers, and use WinSCP clients.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 19 2019, @03:27PM (3 children)
Not sure if there's snark here or not... Never heard of Filezilla, CoreFTP, or CuteFTP? Not to mention WinSCP itself does in fact do FTP.
I will be pleased to know that I don't have to worry about my one inbound and two outbound SFTP streams anymore since FTP is dead. ;)
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday August 19 2019, @03:40PM
I was referring to FileZilla.
I did not use any <no-sarcasm> tags.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Pino P on Monday August 19 2019, @03:41PM
When SourceForge was owned by Dice Holdings, it distributed FileZilla and a bunch of other FTP clients with "DevShare" adware attached to them. This practice lasted from mid-2013 to early 2016 and ended when BIZX took over SourceForge and Slashdot.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 19 2019, @04:24PM
Sadly, if I were to mention FTP to our "IT" guy, he would be likely to get a blank look on his face. I'm pretty sure that he doesn't know what any of those clients are for. Word comes down from corporate that "We are installing blah-blah security suite, which will be pushed to all company computers next week. Please let us know of any problems." Then, 4 months later, blah-blah security suite disappears because the un-install has been quietly pushed, without any announcements. It was obvious from day one that blah-blah security suite brought the best machines to a slow walk, and older machines to their knees. And, the IT guy? He only knew that he couldn't load his internet games, and vidyas. Didn't have a clue what was happening.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Monday August 19 2019, @03:30PM (1 child)
Last I looked, WinSCP clients can in fact work with FTP servers.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday August 19 2019, @04:31PM
If I had an FTP server, I might have discovered that. I've only used SSH / SCP to transfer files between locations, and across OSes for a long time. On Windows WinSCP, just because. And PuTTY, just because. But on Linux, I find that the standard common terminal application can run the ssh command, and most common Linux GUI file managers can take a URL to "mount" a remote directory using nothing but the SSH server on the remote machine.
oh, and the only Linux machines have SSH. From the one and only one Windows machine that I use, but don't own, I would not even try to run an SSH server.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.