Downgrading as of today (Jan 2015) doesn't seem really feasibile since raring is gone. Can't find libcurl3-gnutls-7.29 anywhere. Isn't this majorly awesome unix-y functionality that everybody uses? Surprised it's broken.
Partial workaround is to use Vim's built-in FTP support. vim ftp://mysite.net/myfile.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1267749 Title: curlftps became very slow after upgrade to 13.10. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curlftpfs/+bug/1267749/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs