Out of curiosity, what external application? OS-specific?
On 19/03/2020 01:24, Michal Novotny wrote: > We plan to remove FTP protocol implementation from our code. This work > is tracked in bug 1574475 [1]. The plan is to > > - place FTP behind a pref and turn it off by default on 77 [2] > - keep FTP enabled by default on 78 ESR [3] > - remove the code completely at the beginning of 2021 > > We're doing this for security reasons. FTP is an insecure protocol and > there are no reasons to prefer it over HTTPS for downloading resources. > Also, a part of the FTP code is very old, unsafe and hard to maintain > and we found a lot of security bugs in it in the past. After disabling > FTP in our code, the protocol will be handled by external application, > so people can still use it to download resources if they really want to. > However, it won't be possible to view and browse directory listings. > > > [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1574475 > [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1622409 > [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1622410 > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
