“…FTP lets me PUT files into a location…”
Maybe I’m not tracking this correctly but I’ve never even considered
doing FTP upload in a browser - I just don’t see the benefit to going
that route. Seems to me there are far easier and more functional tools
that do not require any script.
An example of the most basic - as someone mentioned earlier, we have
Finder on macOS and for Windows, I’m pretty sure Windows Explorer
supports FTP all the up to v10…
But as with most things app\OS related, to each their own - the
“right” way is the one that works for you…
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On 23 Apr 2021, at 13:58, Cooper, Robert A wrote:
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 Granted, a lot of that has been replaced by SFTP/SCP,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
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From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org
<owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org> on behalf of Antonio Leding
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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…
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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
