Re: Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service

Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org> Mon, 30 November 2020 15:57 UTC

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From: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 07:56:34 -0800
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Subject: Re: Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service
To: Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com>
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On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 7:54 AM Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com>
wrote:

> On 11/30/20 9:36 AM, ned+ietf@mauve.mrochek.com wrote:
>
> Perhaps that behavior has changed.   When you learn a way to work around
> damage, you tend to keep doing that even after the damage gets fixed.
>
>
> True. but more to the point, are you willing to bet that this behavior is
> never
> ever going to change in any future version?
>
> Not me.  That's why I try to avoid using web browsers to download anything
> for which I need integrity.
>
> (though I generally find that "Download" from web browsers works fine, but
> even that fails more often - sometimes without any error message - than
> downloads using file transfer apps)
>
> Keith
>
>
>

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