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Wietse
Antonio Leding:
> ??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?
>
> - - -
>
> 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 Granted, a lot of that has been replaced by SFTP/SCP,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
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > 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
>
>
