Removing FTP support too

Posted Apr 20, 2021 0:34 UTC (Tue) by pabs (subscriber, #43278)
In reply to: Removing FTP support too by flussence
Parent article: Firefox 88.0 and 78.10 ESR

A raw socket API sounds like a security problem, wouldn't that let you bypass HTTP origin restrictions?

Removing FTP support too

Posted Apr 20, 2021 4:22 UTC (Tue) by calumapplepie (guest, #143655) [Link] (1 responses)

That certainly seems to be Mozilla's position:

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/431

It's not really an upcoming feature, just a proposed spec. We'll see how it winds up.

https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/6398297361088512

Removing FTP support too

Posted Apr 20, 2021 21:40 UTC (Tue) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

I assume it'd be a thing that carries heavy warnings and opt-in consent interstitials, in the same way downloading a random .exe on windows and running it does.