You know, so in the traditional browser environment, which is what you'd be doing with Firefox, the number of online cloud services available to you to transfer files is definitely there and they're generally more secure. Right? So, the ways to transfer files now for a technical person are just so much better than traditional FTP, which really did not have that level of security.Īnd additionally, if you're really non-technical, you're not having to, you're not dealing with a Linux to local, you know, file copy situation, there's just so many services like Dropbox, Box, Google Drive. You know, frankly, Tim, whenever I'm having to move a file from a Linux server to, you know, somewhere local, probably the go-to for me is to just set up an SSH session, which I might already be in and then use SEP, which is the secure file copy. So, there's just there are just so many newer, better ways of doing it, not the least of which is SFTP, or SSHFTP, FTP/ TLS. And so, the reasons that Mozilla is stating their intent to deprecate it is they say that it is an old and fundamentally insecure protocol, that to bring it up to contemporary security standards would be pointless considering that you can accomplish all the same things other ways and those other ways are almost all of how it's done and I think what they're doing now is they're trying to signal well in advance that this is going to go away to get people who are still dependent on FTP to move to those other methods so that when they turn it off, they're not going to break any more people than they have to. Like even before you had reliable use of web pages, you could be using FTP and in the early days, certainly the early days of the world-wide web, you would get lots of FTP addresses. You know, it's, one of those things, it's one of those, it's one of those file transfer protocols, FTP that, of course, was used for an awfully long time and, in fact, it was a great, great tool back in the earlier days of the internet, and right up until today.Ībsolutely. So, today, we want to talk about a recent announcement from Mozilla, that Firefox, that in the Firefox browser, they are going to deprecate support for FTP. Root Causes 97: Firefox to Deprecate Support for FTP Episode Transcript Lightly edited for flow and brevity.
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