HTTPS is killing FTP (Announce)
And just to mention this also, since it's related to networking, ....
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/README
> (Updated October 13 2017):
>
> Because of security concerns with plaintext protocols, we still
> intend to disable the FTP protocol for downloads on this server
> (downloads would still be available over HTTP and HTTPS), but we
> will not be doing it on November 1, 2017, as previously announced
> here. We will be sharing our reasons and offering a chance to
> comment on this issue soon; watch this space for details.
>
> If you maintain scripts used to access ftp.gnu.org over FTP,
> we strongly encourage you to change them to use HTTPS instead.
I swear, everything legacy gets thrown away. I like the simplicity of FTP. I like using mTCP. But decisions like this make it almost impossible.
This is why we really need good (updated! reproducible!) ports of Curl and/or Wget and/or Links2. We just don't have much of a choice. So many sites are going "HTTPS only".
Complete thread:
- New links for DOS. - ron
, 17.01.2019, 20:06 (Announce)
- New links for DOS. - KormaX
, 17.01.2019, 23:42
- New links for DOS. - iw2evk
, 18.01.2019, 08:59
- New links for DOS. - iw2evk
, 18.01.2019, 14:22
- New links for DOS. - iw2evk
- new Curl 7.63.0 build for DOS - Rugxulo
, 18.01.2019, 19:54
- HTTPS is killing FTP - Rugxulo
, 18.01.2019, 20:26
- new Curl 7.63.0 build for DOS - KormaX
, 24.01.2019, 14:05
- HTTPS is killing FTP - Rugxulo
- New links for DOS. - RayeR
, 19.01.2019, 02:23
- New links for DOS. - KormaX
, 24.01.2019, 14:02
- New links for DOS. - bretjohn
, 24.01.2019, 21:13
- New links for DOS. - RayeR
, 26.01.2019, 03:05
- New links for DOS. - KormaX
, 28.01.2019, 10:49
- New links for DOS. - bretjohn
, 28.01.2019, 19:15
- New links for DOS. - RayeR
, 29.01.2019, 21:03
- New links for DOS. - bretjohn
, 30.01.2019, 16:36
- New links for DOS. - bretjohn
- New links for DOS. - RayeR
- New links for DOS. - Ninho
, 04.02.2019, 11:11
- New links for DOS. - Ninho
, 04.02.2019, 11:18
- New links for DOS. - RayeR
, 04.02.2019, 23:29
- New links for DOS. - Ninho
, 05.02.2019, 01:24
- New links for DOS. - RayeR
, 06.02.2019, 00:01
- New links for DOS. - RayeR
- New links for DOS. - Ninho
- New links for DOS. - Ninho
- New links for DOS. - bretjohn
- New links for DOS. - KormaX
- New links for DOS. - RayeR
- New links for DOS. - bretjohn
- New links for DOS. - KormaX
- New links for DOS. - iw2evk
- New links for DOS. - KormaX