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

[Tomas Hajny]

On 2021-05-18 10:38, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
> On Tue, 18 May 2021, Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 17/05/2021 3:13 pm, Karoly Balogh via fpc-pascal wrote:
>>> I'd actually keep
>>> FTP enabled, as it doesn't hurt anything and it's still a thing for 
>>> retro
>>> downloads.
>> 
>> Not just "retro" but a more efficient and faster protocol for file 
>> downloads.
>> Unfortunately the whole world is going HTTP crazy and thinks 
>> everything should
>> go over it, including the kitchen sink.
> 
> I'm old enough to remember the time when I used the NCSA and netscape 
> browsers
> with the Gopher protocol. Apparently it still exists, on about 300 
> sites :-)

I'm old enough to remember that standalone Gopher clients existed well 
before NCSA Mosaic. ;-) Fortunately, there's plenty of standalone FTP 
clients including those with GUI add-ons, we can point out this fact in 
our release communication as well. Out of those mentioned on the 
respective Wikipedia page 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_FTP_client_software), 
WinSCP (MS Windows), gFTP (Linux) and Cyberduck (OSX and MS Windows) 
might be worth mentioning (to cover the major platforms); possibly also 
FAR Manager with its FTP plugin (MS Windows, Linux, *BSD, OSX) to extend 
the coverage to *BSD as well (although that's rather TUI than GUI).

Tomas