> HTTP over plaintext TCP is obsolete in a similar way to Telnet (vs SSH) or FTP (vs SFTP). That’s not comparing apples and oranges-HTTPS was originally just (

> HTTP over plaintext TCP is obsolete in a similar way to Telnet (vs SSH) or FTP (vs SFTP). That’s not comparing apples and oranges-HTTPS was originally just (and often still is just) plaintext HTTP/1.x wrapped in TLS. Whereas, SFTP and SSH are not FTP/TELNET over TLS, they are completely separate protocols. FTPS and TELNETS are the original protocols over TLS, but have seen only limited adoption (mostly in mainframe environments, in which SSH and SFTP perform poorly.) Even HTTP 2 and 3 are just a binary encoding of the HTTP/1.x protocol over an encrypted transport. By contrast, SSH and SFTP are essentially unrelated protocols to TELNET and FTP, as opposed to just binary encodings of them. (The TELNET protocol is already non-text-based anyway-the data may be mostly text but the control messages have never been.)