daniel:// stenberg://May 29

Circa five years ago the browsers dropped FTP support.

#curl still supports it. In 2024, 23% of curl users said they used FTP within the past two years.

My post from April 2020:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/04/15/curl-is-not-removing-ftp/

curl is not removing FTP

FTP is going out of style. The Chrome team has previously announced that they are deprecating and removing support for FTP. Mozilla also announced their plan for the deprecation of FTP in Firefox. Both browsers have paused or conditioned their efforts to not take the final steps during the Covid-19 outbreak, but they will continue … Continue reading curl is not removing FTP →

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Show threadBen ZaninMay 30
@bagder if curl ever dropped FTP support I can predict with certainty that three of Canada's five major banks would instantly have cataclysmic issues performing wire transfers.
Show threadRob RussellMay 30
@gnomon @bagder here to confirm it's actually five of six
Show threadBen Zanin
@oration @bagder are we counting the National Bank of Canada now?? At only 25 billion? Sure OK I guess
May 30 at 3:14pmTusky
Show threadRob RussellMay 31

@gnomon @bagder I go by capitalization, they're at 75% the valuation of the next largest, but an order of magnitude larger than the next smaller.

And they're also really really really good at what they do good, even though that's different from what the others do good