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.
(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.