<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 15, 2022, 21:24 Michael Johnson <<a href="mailto:Michael@ebible.org">Michael@ebible.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I thank God for you all who volunteer to work on the Sword Project.<br>
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I have been upgrading and refining my server layout for eBible.org and a dozen other Bible sites. Keeping FTP going is becoming harder all of the time. Indeed, HTTP (not S) is getting harder, too. HTTPS is the future-resistant protocol to access a Sword repository. I think this is not a problem for currently updated Sword front ends using current back ends. However, the ancient FTP protocol is a terrible protocol to rely on because by default, there is no security to it at all for authentication or content <br>
protection. It is easy to abuse. All major browsers have now stopped supporting it. HTTP without TLS is likewise lacking, but at least it is mostly supported by major browsers and libraries. Google and Apple are nudging everyone to use HTTPS instead of HTTP. Of course, mainland China often blocks HTTPS traffic, trying to force traffic into the clear where it is easier to spy on and modify. It is a strange political environment, indeed.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Any build using the libcurl interfaces should support HTTPS without any modifications necessary, provided libcurl was compiled with SSL/TLS support. But I owe Troy an overdue response to our conversation back in November wherein I test that to be sure.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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THEREFORE, the eBible.org Sword repository at <a href="https://eBible.org/sword/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://eBible.org/sword/</a> is the preferred repository to use for the modules I maintain.<br>
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I try to keep <a href="http://eBible.org/sword/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://eBible.org/sword/</a> (not https) working, but it is getting hard to test that, as most modern browsers "help" me to a more secure connection.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You should be able to use CURL on the command line to check. I believe it won't follow Location header redirects by default (if it does, then there is a command line switch to disable it), so you should be able to check easily in an automated fashion using that.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Anonymous FTP does not work on the main eBible.org (no ftp.) server. It does work most of the time on a separate machine named <a href="http://ftp.eBible.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">ftp.eBible.org</a>. That machine is running a software configuration with a known bug that I don't yet know how to work around that causes it to go down at seemingly random times, usually when I'm asleep or out of my office.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It is a shame that FTP has gotten such a bad rap. Yes, it's plaintext but there ARE times when encryption is unnecessary and just a burden. This is one of those times.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">--Greg</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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