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Anyone who has to deal with ftp on firewalls would say ftp (and ftps) would do well to disappear from the world.

It's not just firewalls. The fact that (unencrypted) FTP is still widely used today when better alternatives like SFTP (via SSH) have existed for years strikes me as odd.

(I'm speaking about authenticated connections. For anonymous access - which should be read-only anyway - you're usually better off using HTTP anyway)

I once had to provide an FTP-like interface to user directories for the website's users. Couldn't find an easy way to do it with SFTP without creating Linux users. Found an FTPS daemon that would let me call an external script for auth and set a root directory, which made it trivial (once I deciphered its slightly-cryptic docs).

So in that case, at least, I was very glad FTP(S) was still around.

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