Re: Re: Synchronet
  By: Diamond Dave to Digital Man on Tue Aug 11 2020 07:43 pm

 >   Re: Re: Synchronet
 >   By: Digital Man to Diamond Dave on Tue Aug 11 2020 01:56 pm
 > 
 >  >   Re: Re: Synchronet
 >  >   By: Diamond Dave to Nightfox on Tue Aug 11 2020 02:16 pm
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 >  >  >  >   Re: Synchronet
 >  >  >  >   By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Tue Aug 11 2020 05:48 am
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 >  >  >  >  TM> How about a browser with FTP built in for Synchronet? That
would also be cool.
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 >  >  >  > Most web browsers are already capable of FTP.
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 >  >  >  > Nightfox
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 >  >  >  >  ￭ Synchronet ￭ Digital Distortion: digitaldistortionbbs.com
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 >  >  > I think Chrome disabled this. But it still works in Firefox.
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 >  > There's still an FTP-client built into Chrome, it just won't render files
(e
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 > 
 > I was reading somewhere that some browsers don't like to use FTP because
it's not secure. Not sure if that's true or not.
 > 
 > *** Diamond Dave ***
 > 

I call horsedung on that.

FTP has supported TLS in different modes for a lot of time already.
Browsermakers always claim FTP is insecure because it does not allow encrypted
sessions, and while 
it is true that a lot of ftp sites don't offer them, it is because they are
offering publicly downladable material and don't see much need for encryption.

The real problem FTP has is that it is a nightmare to filter via firewall.

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