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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: 2) by Username on Monday August 19 2019, @10:38PM
>Trying to automate anything via FTP was always a headache, as it was not a very robust protocol. Something failed and you often wound up with a zero length file and no error response returned.
What I did was create a MD5 hash index of all files located on server, filename|hash format inside. Then when the file was downloaded you could parse it for the file name and trim for last 32 char for hash, then check hash, and redo until 3 fails or matching hash.