Why FTP could soon disappear from the Internet (2020) • Hacker News Board

Re: Why FTP could soon disappear from the Internet (2020)

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h » Tue, Jun 20, 2023, 8:58 PM UTC

ganoushoreilly wrote: post #23

valiant55 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SFTP is basically just SSH, the only thing it shares in common with FTP is the name.

It's secure tunneled FTP. Functionally it performs the exact same way as ftp only it's not in clear text and you have better authentication options.

No, that's FTPS. FTPS wraps FTP in TLS; SFTP is a protocol in the SSH protocol that can transfer files and that happens to implement an FTP-like interface.

Re: Why FTP could soon disappear from the Internet (2020)

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h » Tue, Jun 20, 2023, 9:03 PM UTC

redundantly wrote: post #2

> And I’m sure some person in some suitably technical job somewhere is going to claim that FTP will never die because there will always be a specialized use case for it somewhere. Sure, whatever. But for the vast majority of people, when Chrome disconnects FTP from the browser, they likely won’t find a reason to reconnect. I'm some person in a suitable technical job somewhere. Yeah, FTP will be around for a long, lon…

Bonus points for equating Chrome use with "the Internet"

Re: Why FTP could soon disappear from the Internet (2020)

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Post by throwawaymobule » Wed, Jun 21, 2023, 3:21 AM UTC

redundantly wrote: post #2

> And I’m sure some person in some suitably technical job somewhere is going to claim that FTP will never die because there will always be a specialized use case for it somewhere. Sure, whatever. But for the vast majority of people, when Chrome disconnects FTP from the browser, they likely won’t find a reason to reconnect. I'm some person in a suitable technical job somewhere. Yeah, FTP will be around for a long, lon…

Most of my own use of (unsecured) FTP has been with hacked consoles. Server software is usually written pretty soon after a toolchain works, and is a huge quality of life upgrade. Really don't see that trend stopping.

Anecdotally, pestering a nontechnical buddy of mine to learn how to FTP games onto a ps3 gave him a headstart on a tech support role he got years later.