Google Chrome 80 Released With WebVR 1.1, Dropping FTP Support

[dlq84]

I don't know...
Does that work with a web browser?
Do I need to buy a certificate for that?

No, sftp runs over ssh. You're thinking of ftps (certificate).

It's funny how people are angry at google for not supporting an outdated protocol while they are most likely not using Chrome anyway.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

I guess Google needs to tell all the scientific data repositories that allow public access via ftp (and refuse to support sftp) that they need to stop using it.

What is their reasoning in not supporting sftp?

[perpetually high]

I don't know...
Does that work with a web browser?
Do I need to buy a certificate for that?

You can use:

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer

in the directory you want to share. Then visit the url in the browser. So for a local IP, would be something like http://192.168.0.24:8000/

[Danny3]

You can't use any of the better alternatives like say sftp?

I don't know...
Does that work with a web browser?
Do I need to buy a certificate for that?

[andyprough]

Brave. Better, faster, safer.

[elatllat]

https, zsync, torrent, rsync, git-annex, send.firefox.com , there are just so many ftp alternatives.

[Paradigm Shifter]

I guess Google needs to tell all the scientific data repositories that allow public access via ftp (and refuse to support sftp) that they need to stop using it.

[RahulSundaram]

Why not?
Maybe I want to transfer some files from one computer to another.

You can't use any of the better alternatives like say sftp?

[Neraxa]

A samba server?: Facing the internet? Are you out of your mind?

Notoriously insecure.

Another fact is that FTP provides a structured directory listing while HTTP does not have a standard way to list directories (you can format directory listings with HTTP but everyone invents their own way to do it rather than use a standardized means to do so). This makes things really difficult if you need to write scripts to query directory listings.

[GraysonPeddie]

(retracted)