[fpc-pascal] FTP support gone - switch to HTTP ?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

Apologies, typed the wrong email alias. 
This was meant to go to the core list.

The problem is real, though... Consider it a heads up :-)

Michael.

On Mon, 17 May 2021, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> Mattias Gaertner pointed out that Chrome no longer supports FTP downloads.
>
> I know that Firefox will follow suit really soon (if they haven't already).
> Since Edge now also uses Chromium, they will soon also have this disabled.
>
> This wil surely cause problems for many users.
>
> So I think we should start making the FTP server downloads available through 
> HTTP(s)
> instead of FTP. I also think we should do this for 3.2.2. 
> (the pages are auto-generated from some base URLS, so this should not be a 
> lot of work)
>
> It should be sufficient to have a virtual host that points
> to the ftp directory of the current FPC's ftp dir.
>
> Charlie, is this an option for you ?
>
> If you want, I can create a new DNS:
>
> downloads.freepascal.org
>
> which you can then use to set up the virtual host. 
> I don't think HTTPS is a necessity, but if you prefer that is also good of
> course...
>
> When that is done, the links on the download page can be switched to http(s).
>
> Michael.
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