While the ftp protocol is still used in places, it is being replaced more and more with sftp, because ftp sends passwords in plain-text.
As far as on macOS, the curl utility is readily available can handle most common requirements for ftp, for those who need it, and there are other 3rd-party solutions of various kinds available.
Apple likely dropped their own support for it to reduce the amount of space consumed by the OS for an unsafe protocol that is becoming more and more of a rarity for anyone other than a select few, which is easily handled by 3rd-party options for the handful of us who still need it.
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On 12/23/22 2:19 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 12/23/22 14:03, Dave McGuire wrote:
FTP¡¯s days are numbered, I¡¯m afraid.
?? Ha!? Doubtful.
? [replying to my own email here, bad form, I know]
? Wow, I'm sorry, I hadn't intended for that to sound as snarky as it did.? Busy day.
? What I meant is that anyone who has been following the industry for more than a few years knows that such predictions are nearly always pointless.? Remember "the last mainframe would be unplugged on March 15, 1996"?? How about rumors of the impending death of SGI that started around 1994, that didn't come true until a decade and a half later? Same with Cray.
? Just see what happens, and as an educated and experienced professional in the computer field, use YOUR judgment to determine what protocols YOU use.? Playing "follow the leader" is for lackies.? We're all participants, no matter how out of fashion independent thought has been rendered by people who want to sell us things.
??????????? -Dave
