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

[Sven Barth]

Tomas Hajny via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> schrieb am
Di., 18. Mai 2021, 11:44:

> 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).
>

I don't think we need to mention any specific clients (and why did your
list not include Filezilla? :P )

Regards,
Sven

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