Reply to post: Re: Fine advice, but not relevant to the article or browser

In a complete non-surprise, Mozilla hammers final nail in FTP's coffin by removing it from Firefox

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Re: Fine advice, but not relevant to the article or browser

"And yes, they should have added support for sftp/scp/ssh to the browsers decades ago."

Why should they do anything like that? SSH is a control protocol, which has very little to do with browsers. Why should a browser do the job of an SSH client when you can go get an SSH client? At least with FTP, the browser's job of downloading files is part of what FTP is for. Similarly, I don't think a browser should implement the uploading features of an SCP/FTP client, because that's not its purpose.

A browser, to me, is a tool for getting files over certain protocols and displaying them to the user, and shouldn't try to do much more than that. Opinions vary on what documents a browser should display (run scripts in them, have a PDF viewer in them, etc), but I would hope that we don't also have to shove every other kind of program into that.

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