On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 4:19 PM Eric Auer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bocke adds this: (I think FTP is just broken in the major browsers now, > alas!) It is broken and will *not* be fixed. FTP is deprecated and is going away. It is ancient, ill maintained, and a yawning mass of security holes. HTTP is going away in favor of HTTPS, which adds encryption to the connection. SFTP never caught on. SCP is the protocol of choice in locked down corporate environments. Essentially, *all* communications must now be encrypted *both* ways, which requires current encryption protocols baked in. Bare minimum, I believe this would require an SSH library for DOS. If you are using a DOS emulator like DOSbiox X, you can rely on the host to imp[lement such things. If you are running DOS on the bare metal, you will have problems. You may still be able to set up an FTP server on a host that your pure DOS machine can connect to, but it will *not* be part of a browser. (Most interest I see in DOS these days is in running old DOS *games*, where communication with the outside world is not a factor. Those folks won't care about FTP, and may have never used it.). ______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
