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Well it reeks a bit because from the article "Mozilla could have opted for implementing support for secure FTP in Firefox; a bug was filed 19 years ago to intr
by calvinmorrison 7y ago
Well it reeks a bit because from the article
"Mozilla could have opted for implementing support for secure FTP in Firefox; a bug was filed 19 years ago to introduce support for SFTP in Firefox but nothing ever came out of it."
- duskwuff 7y agoNever happened because there was no use case for it. FTP made some sense to have in a browser because it supported unauthenticated downloads. SFTP, as a protocol which runs over SSH, basically requires authentication. (You could conceivably set up an SSH server to allow authentication against a "guest" user, but that gives security folks the heebie-jeebies.) So it doesn't really make sense to link to an SFTP resource in a web context, making it very low value to support in a browser.
- calvinmorrison 7y agoThat is extremely common no? Ex: checking out as an anonymous git user?
- duskwuff 7y ago> That is extremely common no? Ex: checking out as an anonymous git user? That almost always happens over the git protocol or git+http, not git+ssh.