On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 12:00:16PM -0500, Keith Moore wrote: > I'm very opposed to this proposal. Likewise. > FTP is also a very stable interface, whereas as HTTP + HTML are both > hideously complex.???? Use of FTP as a remote file access protocol is very > widely supported. It is, and part of the reason for that is the stability you reference. Scripts that work tend to keep working for a very long time. Another reason for keeping FTP around (that I haven't seen articulated in this thread; please forgive me if I missed it) is that having a second or third way to access information is extremely useful when things go very wrong. If that happens even once over the next 20 years then the tiny cost of keeping FTP running will be repaid in full very quickly. ---rsk
