Another browser soon to not offer FTP. I hope N3V is planning to upgrade the DLS download process! https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozil...61589348395194469&mid=13336791&cid=1453526910
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Another browser soon to not offer FTP. I hope N3V is planning to upgrade the DLS download process! https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozil...61589348395194469&mid=13336791&cid=1453526910
I was going to ask if Filezilla or some other FTP client worked. Thanks for beating me to it.
It's a shame that the mainstream is removing a very useful protocol. What's insecure about it? If the service is properly configured, the service can be set to read-only for clients so nothing can be uploaded to it.
Guess we're going back to the old days then of using a third party application for FTP downloading - I think I still have one such program on an old demo disc that came with an ancient PC magazine on my shelf, although whether it would even still run under modern Windows (I got it back in the Win 98 days, and it did still work under Win XP, but that was the last time I used it, so whether it would run in Vista/7/8/10 is unclear). Still disappointing to hear though.
In very general terms, a user on a server can upload a script to their user directory. If they run the script there it runs under their user name so it can only effect files they own. But if they call the script through a browser using the ftp protocol it runs under the web daemon which has much more extensive rights since it has to answer requests for files from every user directory. You're right, a good admin can block this sort of behavior but we live in a world of virtual servers that by default are not locked down that tightly and the people running them don't know better. It is a script kiddie exploit but sadly it works far too often.
William
PS, Http and https both support file downloads using the GET command so web designers can offer files that way from their webserver rather than starting up a ftp daemon to download files. This has been possible since html 4 was introduced. Of course, I think the code of the DLS site predates that time.