Currently people can access FTP list and download resources hosted on FTP servers in Chrome through FTP URLs, but this may not work anymore in the near future. In a post published by Chrome engineers, there is a plan to deprecate FTP support in Chrome version 82.The major motivation for this deprecation is that Chrome doesn't have an encrypted FTP connection support(FTPs), this raises security risk of downloading resources over FTP. Since users can access FTP URLs and download resources, there is no encryption of the data which indicates any sensitive information would be exposed to middle man...

When developing websites, frequently we may need to upload source codes to the remote server. To ease of thew work, many website developers set up FTPs to upload the files. This post is a tutorial on how to install and setup vsftpd on a server. vsftpd is a very popular FTP service on Unix-like systems.Open command terminal, then install the vftpd by issuing commandyum install vsftpdorsudo apt-get install vsftpdAfter installing the vsftpd, the config file needs to be updated based on the operating mode preferred. The first thing to be done is to disable the anonymous login in vsftpd.conf# Disab...

1. What's active mode and passive modea. FTP has two ports to control:Port 20 is for data transferPort 21 is for control or establish TCP connectionb. The process of active connectionNote: C represents Client and S represents ServerS opens port 20 and 21C connects to port 21 of S with a random port, this port can be between 1024 and 65536, it sends port+x to server at the same time to specify C(X)->S(21)When S receives the command, it will sends back ACK, S(21)->C(X)S will set up a connection between its port 20 and client's X+1, S(20)->C(X+1)C responds with an ACK,C(X+1)->S(20)c. ...

Are you used to use cPanel or Plesk on VPS for your PHP website management? If for some reason you don't want to use them? What can you do? How do you maintain your website? How do you access Emails, use FTP to upload files or use phpMyAdmin to manage your databases? You may need to configure all these services yourself on a VPS without cPanel or Plesk or other similar apps.But to configure all these services on a Linux server is not an easy job. You may spend many nights but still fail to get satisfactory results. Here I share with you some useful links which can help you to configure a worki...

The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is specified in RFC 959, published in October 1985. The attempt in this specification is to satisfy the diverse needs of users of maxi-hosts, mini-hosts, personal workstations, and TACs, with a simple, and easily implemented protocol design.That's from the introduction. Does anyone here know what a TAC is? I don't. I had to look it up, since the acronym wasn't even expanded in the RFC. It took three tries in Google, and I finally found it in some obscure Cisco IOS manual -- it apparently stands for Terminal Access Control protocol. Whatever that means. . ...