Hi, On Mon, 17 May 2021, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
> I know that Firefox will follow suit really soon (if they haven't already). > Since Edge now also uses Chromium, they will soon also have this disabled. > > This wil surely cause problems for many users. > > So I think we should start making the FTP server downloads available through > HTTP(s) > instead of FTP. I also think we should do this for 3.2.2. > (the pages are auto-generated from some base URLS, so this should not be a lot > of work) Agreed. This is something I wanted to raise already, but somehow it always fell between the cracks. > It should be sufficient to have a virtual host that points > to the ftp directory of the current FPC's ftp dir. > > Charlie, is this an option for you ? Certainly. See below. > If you want, I can create a new DNS: > > downloads.freepascal.org > > which you can then use to set up the virtual host. > I don't think HTTPS is a necessity, but if you prefer that is also good of > course... I think HTTPS is certainly a good practice in 2021, and it's easy to set up with LetsEncrypt. So that shouldn't be a problem. > When that is done, the links on the download page can be switched to http(s). Yes, this is something I wanted to do Real Soon Now(tm). I'd actually keep FTP enabled, as it doesn't hurt anything and it's still a thing for retro downloads. But I planned to also offer HTTP and HTTPS. The problem is, I also wanted to migrate away from the old FTP host machine in the meantime, as that had disk I/O errors... but I never finished setting up the new VM. I can attend to this this weekend. Is that too late for 3.2.2, and we need it earlier? Maybe I can squeeze it in during the week. Charlie _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal