[sword-devel] Firefox to remove support for the FTP protocol | ZDNet

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Right, the issue is that our HTTP support is implemented as an attempt
to parse Apache directory listing HTML output.  It almost certainly
won't work with other web servers and Apache has already changed their
output on us at least once.

Nick (PocketSword) graciously provided the original support when he was
having trouble with FTP access over iOS.

Bishop uses SWORD's FTP support over iOS with no issues that I've had.

It could have been a network provider filtering out FTP traffic when Nic
was doing development.  Not sure.

This is one real world advantage to having another protocol available:
if network providers babysit their users and try to filter their data
for them (which would tick me off if my provider did that).

Troy


On 3/20/20 12:31 PM, Greg Hellings wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 2:25 PM Michael Johnson <Michael at ebible.org
> <mailto:Michael at ebible.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 3/20/20 7:44 AM, Greg Hellings wrote:
>     >
>     > ✔ https://www.crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/
>     > ✔ http://ftp.bible.org/
>     > ✗ http://ftp.xiphos.org/
>     > ✗ http://ftp.ibt.org.ru/
>     > ✗ https://ftp.ebible.org/
>     Please note that https://ebible.org/sword/ works. You should use
>     ftp.ebible.org <http://ftp.ebible.org> when using ftp, and just
>     plain ebible.org <http://ebible.org> when using http or https.
>
>
> Ah, there it is. I missed that entry in the wiki page. Indeed.
>
> --Greg
>
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