Chrome 87 Beta Brings Further FTP Deprecation, Cookie Store API

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Chrome 87 Beta Brings Further FTP Deprecation, Cookie Store API

Following last week's release of Chrome 86, Google has promoted its Chrome 87 web browser to beta...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Chrome-87-Beta-Released

[cl333r]

but the as to the state it will be in if ready for Chrome 87

What?

[CommunityMember]

What?

Well, that sentence is about as clear as the schedules/targets to fully enable wayland, so there is symmetry.

[mdedetrich]

What is the reasoning behind disabling and then removing FTP support?

[kylew77]

Why disable ftp? It is still a valid platform for downloading iso images of Linux.

[Calinou]

What is the reasoning behind disabling and then removing FTP support?

It's not quite as popular as HTTP for downloads nowadays. I rarely see FTP hosts in the wild anymore in 2020.

Either way, if you still stumble upon a FTP link, the `ftp` command line client and `curl` are going nowhere

[Danny3]

What is the reasoning behind disabling and then removing FTP support?

Maybe to force people to HTTP and then with a later move to force them to HTTPS for which somebody needs to pay SSL certificates yearly.
Of course there's Let's encrypt who gives them for free, but I wouldn't be surprised if later they ban Let's encrypt also saying that it's insecure and you need to pay for a SSL certificate.
We'll see...

[mdedetrich]

Maybe to force people to HTTP and then with a later move to force them to HTTPS for which somebody needs to pay SSL certificates yearly.
Of course there's Let's encrypt who gives them for free, but I wouldn't be surprised if later they ban Let's encrypt also saying that it's insecure and you need to pay for a SSL certificate.
We'll see...

You know that SFTP exists if you want encrypted FTP connections?

[tildearrow]

You know that SFTP exists if you want encrypted FTP connections?

You know that it requires SSH, right?

(and if you are talking about FTPS, nobody uses that)


Furthermore, the difficulty of getting a file from HTTP vs. FTP:

-FTP-
1. Connect
2. Login with anonymous username
3. Enter some binary mode
4. Send a few commands to further make the server happy
5. CD to directory
6. Send the get file command
7. Get the file

-HTTP-
1. Connect
2. GET /file HTTP/1.1
3. Get the file

[Danny3]

You know that SFTP exists if you want encrypted FTP connections?

I know, as my file manager (Dolphin) supports it along with FISH, but I never heard of a browser supporting SFTP and how that would work, if it would need a SSL certificate.