Re: "FTP sends data as plaintext and just wasn’t designed for the modern web"
@Steve: So a non-encrypted http page can't pull in stuff from non-encrypted ftp sites because security?
I said nothing one way or the other about that. I wouldn't cite, as such, security as a reason to avoid that, since the browser will normally use "anonymous" FTP (username = "anonymous" OR "ftp", password = email address) if it has to transfer anything over FTP.
However, there is a performance issue - if the "cited" item comes from the same server *by HTTP* as the non-encrypted citing page that was also fetched by HTTP, then the browser can (if using HTTP/1.1) reuse a connection, but if the cited item is FTP, it can't.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
