On Tue, 18 May 2021, Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal wrote:
On 17/05/2021 3:13 pm, Karoly Balogh via fpc-pascal wrote:
I'd actually keep
FTP enabled, as it doesn't hurt anything and it's still a thing for retro
downloads.
Not just "retro" but a more efficient and faster protocol for file downloads.
Unfortunately the whole world is going HTTP crazy and thinks everything should
go over it, including the kitchen sink.
I'm old enough to remember the time when I used the NCSA and netscape browsers
with the Gopher protocol. Apparently it still exists, on about 300 sites :-)
Michael.
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