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From: Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org>
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Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> writes:

> On 3/12/24 08:31, Julieta Shem wrote:
>> You might be using a recent browser.  There's a certain trend in
>> giving up on FTP for good.  Chrome, for instance, doesn't allow such 
>> URLs anymore.
>
> I think that it's better said that contemporary web browsers have
> stopped supporting FTP protocol themselves.
>
> Most, if not all, can be configured to use an external FTP program.
>
> "doesn't allow" suggests that they forbid the ftp:// scheme / FTP
> protocol, which is not the case.

I thought they ignored it.  I think you're saying that they'll happily
send it over, say, the Windows shell to handle it?  I didn't know that.