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I expect this to have very little impact on anything.

ognarb 5y ago
Yeah ftp support should be backed in the operating system. In KDE, it's simple to open an ftp link in Dolphin as if it was a local folder and I think it's the same for GNOME, but I have no idea about if it's possible in macOS and windows.
- pitaj 5y ago
  FTP support works in Windows explorer.
  - djrogers 5y ago
    As it does in the Finder in macOS.
    - ognarb 5y ago
      So now I'm even more confused at why user are complaining. Ftp still works everywhere.
- calvinmorrison 5y ago
  Last I checked FTP was part of the web?
  - lallysingh 5y ago
    Nope, literally not. It's an internet service, sure, but not the web.
    - calvinmorrison 5y ago
      The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as the Web, is an information system where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs, such as https://example.com/ https://example.com/), which may be interlinked by hyperlinks, and are accessible over the Internet.
      - mattl 5y ago
        The web is HTML and HTTP. URLs to HTTP resources are links to things on the web, URLs to non-web resources are links to things on the Internet, maybe... maybe not, maybe links to other computers in your home, or files on disk.
  - mattl 5y ago
    Nope, FTP predates the web. A web page may link to an FTP server, of course.
sschueller 5y ago
Well I'm going to move all my documents and files that are available for download to a public ftp. If you use Firefox you won't have access, sorry.
- mattl 5y ago
  Firefox will just prompt you for an application to use for `ftp` URLs.
- zamadatix 5y ago
  > If you use Firefox you won't have access, sorry. Or Chrome, Edge, Safari... even IE. They'll have to use an FTP client.
daxuak 5y ago
Check out NCBI, terabytes of public data are being shared on FTP servers. There are other protocols/APIs, but FTP has been a much better experience in many use cases. Those files are also linked all over the place in NCBI pages and elsewhere.
- acdha 5y ago
  Does FTP really have better experience in 2021? I'm pretty sure the last time I saw better performance from FTP was in the previous century and, unlike FTP, having built-in error detection and recovery is pretty nice.
  - daxuak 5y ago
    In my experience with NCBI it's better mostly because other tools or schemes provided by them kinda sucked, but FTP servers were there since forever and grew to be well organized and stable. Outside of this niche, no.

Yeah ftp support should be backed in the operating system. In KDE, it's simple to open an ftp link in Dolphin as if it was a local folder and I think it's the same for GNOME, but I have no idea about if it's possible in macOS and windows.

pitaj 5y ago
FTP support works in Windows explorer.
- djrogers 5y ago
  As it does in the Finder in macOS.
  - ognarb 5y ago
    So now I'm even more confused at why user are complaining. Ftp still works everywhere.
calvinmorrison 5y ago
Last I checked FTP was part of the web?
- lallysingh 5y ago
  Nope, literally not. It's an internet service, sure, but not the web.
  - calvinmorrison 5y ago
    The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as the Web, is an information system where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs, such as https://example.com/ https://example.com/), which may be interlinked by hyperlinks, and are accessible over the Internet.
    - mattl 5y ago
      The web is HTML and HTTP. URLs to HTTP resources are links to things on the web, URLs to non-web resources are links to things on the Internet, maybe... maybe not, maybe links to other computers in your home, or files on disk.
- mattl 5y ago
  Nope, FTP predates the web. A web page may link to an FTP server, of course.

sschueller 5y ago

Well I'm going to move all my documents and files that are available for download to a public ftp. If you use Firefox you won't have access, sorry.

mattl 5y ago
Firefox will just prompt you for an application to use for `ftp` URLs.
zamadatix 5y ago
> If you use Firefox you won't have access, sorry. Or Chrome, Edge, Safari... even IE. They'll have to use an FTP client.

daxuak 5y ago

Check out NCBI, terabytes of public data are being shared on FTP servers. There are other protocols/APIs, but FTP has been a much better experience in many use cases. Those files are also linked all over the place in NCBI pages and elsewhere.

acdha 5y ago
Does FTP really have better experience in 2021? I'm pretty sure the last time I saw better performance from FTP was in the previous century and, unlike FTP, having built-in error detection and recovery is pretty nice.
- daxuak 5y ago
  In my experience with NCBI it's better mostly because other tools or schemes provided by them kinda sucked, but FTP servers were there since forever and grew to be well organized and stable. Outside of this niche, no.