Security News > 2020 > February > RIP FTP? File Transfer Protocol switched off by default in Chrome 80
2020-02-05 18:48
Chrome 80 emerged from Google this week with a few more nails to hammer into the coffin of the venerable File Transfer Protocol.
It has been a death by a thousand cuts for FTP in Chrome.
A bug in 74 dropped support for accessing FTP URLs over HTTP proxies and went down so well that version 76 removed proxy support for FTP entirely.
Version 81 will switch it off for all Chrome installations and Version 82 should remove the thing once and for all.
Solutions such as FTP over Secure Shell connections can help, but ultimately FTP itself is a protocol from a simpler and more trusting time.
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