On Tue, 1 Jan 2019, Eliot Miranda wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>> On Dec 31, 2018, at 6:42 PM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu> wrote:
>> 
>> FTP is pretty much dead. IMO the best solution is to deprecate/remove support.
>
> Why not instead make the test contingent on the availability of “ftp.localhost” (ie the test tries to contact an ftp server on the local host)? If the server is not present/unresponsive the test is an expected failure.  If present, the test proceeds.  We can then easily set up test environments when we want to simply by configuring an ftp server on the local host.

That could work too. We might as well create a mock FTP server and test 
against that.
But I wouldn't mind either if the FTP support code were moved to an 
external repository. Public FTP servers are really rare now, and even 
internal ones are potential security risks[1].

Levente

[1] https://www.rsaconference.com/blogs/ftp-is-dead-long-live-ftp

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>> 
>> Levente
>> 
>>> On Mon, 31 Dec 2018, tim Rowledge wrote:
>>> 
>>> The long-gone st.cs.uiuc.edu site used to be our example of how to add a remote directory but... long-gone. Can we enable anonymous ftp access to a directory on squeak.org as a replacement? files.squeak.org might appear appropriate but seems to be locked to only http access right now.
>>> 
>>> tim
>>> --
>>> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>>> To define recursion, we must first define recursion.
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