WWW browsers are definitely poor clients now, and they have been since at least 2016/2017 when I was adding some verbs to Bernstein publicfile's FTP server. *

WWW browsers are definitely poor clients now, and they have been since at least 2016/2017 when I was adding some verbs to Bernstein publicfile's FTP server. * http://jdebp.uk./FGA/web-browser-ftp-hall-of-shame.html http://jdebp.uk./FGA/web-browser-ftp-hall-of-shame.html But they actually used to be much better than they are now. Netscape Navigator, and WWW browsers of the 1990s such as IBM's WebExplorer for OS/2, were quite happy with (the original) publicfile and other FTP servers, far more so than WWW browsers were in 2017 and are today. This is definitely not an "always" thing.