Re: Bogus Mozilla FTP server websites? FTP? HTTPS?

"Mr. Man-wai Chang" <[email protected]> Sat, 4 Jul 2026 12:27:11 +0800

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On 7/4/2026 4:50 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2026-07-03 14:44, aer wrote:
>>
>> The only official one I'm aware of is:
>> https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/
> 
> Which is https, not ftp.

It was a FTP server. But FTP was declared
old, ulgy, bad, unsecured and deprecated.
So FTP became HTTPS (networking protocol
header and packet data).

Firefox also dropped its built-in FTP
function as well.

As a result, users who wanted FTP might
have switched to other browsers like
Microsoft Edge, or use standalone FTP
clients.

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