Because FTP lets me PUT files into a location without the hassle of setting up some kind of upload script, where you have to filter and tinker with permissions, so that you don't allow a malicious executable to be uploaded that can simply be run by visiting said file in a browser? Granted, a lot of that has been replaced by SFTP/SCP, but ftp is still useful.
RobertC ________________________________ From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org <owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org> on behalf of Antonio Leding <t...@leding.net> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2021 15:45 To: Wietse Venema Cc: postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: Re: Speaking of Firefox and HTTP^H^H^H^HFTP... Exactly - I’ve always wondered why the fascination + hangup with FTP when one can just dump the exact same files into a directory (or even the same one) and serve it as http or https - a file is a file is a file - the protocol doesn’t care… ________________________________ On 23 Apr 2021, at 7:58, Wietse Venema wrote: Viktor Dukhovni: I just updated Firefox to version 88, and now "ftp://"; support is disabled by default, and the plan is to remove support in Firefox 90. I've re-enabled it, will have to enjoy it to the max while it lasts... [ Wietse's upstream FTP site for Postfix source tarballs will soon no longer be browser-accessible. :-( ] Available since just about forever: http://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/index.html<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/index.html__;!!KwNVnqRv!S2gGW4fJWhVv8mPXV4eZ0vMtoTb52w_DJ4U4Cbq4WtCxdRm-n7cjyEgGbFyr3kTw$> Wietse
