How does everyone download or upload ftp these days? I was trying to download some
door programs from the bbs archives at thebbs.org and found out there is no longer
an ftp download function. I could not save as either. thanks

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Re: browsers that still support ftp?
By: Rixter to All on Tue May 14 2024 05:32 pm

How does everyone download or upload ftp these days? I was trying to download some
door programs from the bbs archives at thebbs.org and found out there is no longer
an ftp download function. I could not save as either. thanks

A while ago, I heard a tip (I think from Digital Man) that Microsoft's Internet Explorer still supported FTP downloads, and that seemed to work for me. Or possibly an old version of a web browser that still supports FTP downloads, or even a stand-alone FTP program would probably work.

I don't know if archives.thebbs.org supports FTP uploading, but if I want to upload somewhere via FTP, I'd probably use a stand-alone FTP program (such as FileZilla).

Nightfox

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Rixter wrote to All <=-

How does everyone download or upload ftp these days? I was trying to download some door programs from the bbs archives at thebbs.org and
found out there is no longer an ftp download function. I could not save
as either. thanks

I tend to use something like WinSCP or Cyberduck to do any FTP stuff these days - although it's increasingly uncommon!


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Re: browsers that still support ftp?
By: Rixter to All on Tue May 14 2024 05:32 pm

How does everyone download or upload ftp these days? I was trying to download some door programs from the bbs archives at thebbs.org and found out there is no longer an ftp download function. I could not save as either.

When I have to use ftp, I use wget usually, Or just a good old fashioned 'ftp' client.

But for the BBS Archives, I download via HTTP now (from my mirror of it): https://vert.synchro.net/files/BBS.Archives/
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Hello Rixter!

14 May 24 17:32, you wrote to all:

How does everyone download or upload ftp these days?

If it's a host that i will visit more often and/or i need to synchronise folders: filezilla. (does SFTP and FTPS, and it has a good server too).
If it's in a bash script, i use curl, because you can control retries and bandwidth.
If it's a one-off, in MacOS the finder itself can do it. Go > Connect to server > ftp://... and it mounts it as a network share. Works in windows too.

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Re: browsers that still support ftp?
By: Nightfox to Rixter on Tue May 14 2024 03:32 pm

Re: browsers that still support ftp?
By: Rixter to All on Tue May 14 2024 05:32 pm

How does everyone download or upload ftp these days? I was trying to download some
door programs from the bbs archives at thebbs.org and found out there is no longer
an ftp download function. I could not save as either. thanks

A while ago, I heard a tip (I think from Digital Man) that Microsoft's Internet Explorer still supported FTP downloads, and tha
seemed to work for me. Or possibly an old version of a web browser that still supports FTP downloads, or even a stand-alone FT
program would probably work.

I don't know if archives.thebbs.org supports FTP uploading, but if I want to upload somewhere via FTP, I'd probably use a
stand-alone FTP program (such as FileZilla).

Nightfox

Thank you i will see if i can lay my hands on an old web browser. Have a good day.

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Re: browsers that still support ftp?
By: Digital Man to Rixter on Tue May 14 2024 03:52 pm

When I have to use ftp, I use wget usually, Or just a good old fashioned 'ftp' client.

Did you see they removed FTP support from wget2?

I had to switch to cURL

Andrew

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Re: browsers that still support ftp?
By: apam to Digital Man on Wed May 15 2024 09:04 pm

Re: browsers that still support ftp?
By: Digital Man to Rixter on Tue May 14 2024 03:52 pm

When I have to use ftp, I use wget usually, Or just a good old fashioned 'ftp' client.

Did you see they removed FTP support from wget2?

No!

I had to switch to cURL

Ah, man. That sucks. I think I have a lot of readme/instruction docs that include example wget-ftp command-lines. :-(
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