[altmind]

Do you remember that chrome lost FTP support recently? The protocol was widely used and simple enough.

[ErroneousBosh]

"Was" is the key here. FTP has been obsolete for 20 years.

[altmind]

People are confusing obsolete with stable and feature complete.

[chb]

Widely used? By whom? Devs who don't understand rsync or scp? Give me a practical scenario where a box is running FTP but not SSH.

Edit: then account for the fact that this rare breed of content uploader doesn't use an FTP client... there's absolutely no reason to have FTP client code in a browser. It's an attack surface that is utterly unnecessary.

[Demiurge]

Also, the protocol is pretty much a holdover from the earliest days, before encryption, or complicated NATs. I remember using it with just telnet a few times. It's pretty cool, but absolutely nobody should be using FTP these days. I remember saying this back in the 2005, and here we are 20 years later, someone still lamenting dropping FTP support from a browser? I think we're decades overdue.

[superkuh]

By many scientific and educational organizations for distribution of data. Places where the outcome matters and the way to achieve it doesn't. An FTP client in a browser is incomparibly smaller attack surface than, say, executing every random program sent to you by arbitrary third parties (javascript).

[altmind]

People who navigate ftp storage maybe? Like Linux repos?

[tracker1]

Linking to an FTP file from a web page.