Re: Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service

Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> Mon, 30 November 2020 15:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service
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From: Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com>
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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