On 2021-05-18 10:38, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
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 :-)
I'm old enough to remember that standalone Gopher clients existed well
before NCSA Mosaic. ;-) Fortunately, there's plenty of standalone FTP
clients including those with GUI add-ons, we can point out this fact in
our release communication as well. Out of those mentioned on the
respective Wikipedia page
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_FTP_client_software),
WinSCP (MS Windows), gFTP (Linux) and Cyberduck (OSX and MS Windows)
might be worth mentioning (to cover the major platforms); possibly also
FAR Manager with its FTP plugin (MS Windows, Linux, *BSD, OSX) to extend
the coverage to *BSD as well (although that's rather TUI than GUI).
Tomas
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