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 threadStewart Russell

@gnomon this is disturbing, yet somehow slightly comforting.

It's a bit like discovering that every power station in Ontario relied on a comms board and failsafe protocol so old that the kit had "Northern Telecom" stamped on it

May 30 at 3:22pmWeb
Show threadBen ZaninMay 30

@scruss @oration wait until you hear about the mainframe that holds the database containing like 60% of the mortgages in Canada

The one specific solitary mainframe machine

Show threadStewart RussellMay 30
@gnomon @oration insert "but with replication, right?" meme