Dear all,
The FTP protocol for file downloads has been losing popularity over the
years in favor of HTTP/S. There are many advantages of HTTP/S including
speed, statelessness, security (HTTPS), and better support. Importantly
during the past 2-3 years the main web browsers (Chrome and Firefox)
have dropped support for the FTP protocol, which has effectively
discontinued the FTP protocol for non-technical users.
Given that the majority of file download activity on the internet has
moved to HTTP/S, wwPDB plans to deprecate FTP download protocol on
November 1st 2024.
wwPDB has traditionally supported FTP, together with HTTP/S and RSYNC.
Gradual deprecation of the FTP protocol, in favor of the HTTP/HTTPS
protocol will be approached while maintaining support for the RSYNC
protocol which offers additional functionality compared to the other 2
protocols.
As announced previously
(http://www.wwpdb.org/news/news?year=2022#6303be3b707ecd4f63b3d3d9), we
have introduced DNS names that are specific to the protocols:
* files.wwpdb.org for HTTP/S
* ftp.wwpdb.org for FTP. To be deprecated on November 1st 2024. Note
that from September 2023 this DNS name will not accept HTTP/S traffic.
* rsync.wwpdb.org for RSYNC
Starting September 2023, wwPDB will start enforcing use of these updated
DNS names for the preparation of FTP protocol deprecation.
Please contact [email protected] with any questions.
Kind regards,
Deborah Harrus
PDBe
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Deborah Harrus, Ph.D.
Lead Annotator
PDBe - Protein Data Bank in Europe
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Hinxton
Cambridge CB10 1SD UK
http://www.PDBe.org
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