Deprecation of FTP File Download Protocol on November 1, 2024
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Jose Duarte
Sep 18, 2024, 12:33:45 AM9/18/24
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The FTP protocol for file downloads has been losing popularity over the years in favor of HTTP/S. There are many advantages of HTTP/S including speed, statelessness, security (HTTPS), and better support. Importantly during the past 2-3 years the main web browsers (Chrome and Firefox) have dropped support for the FTP protocol, which has effectively discontinued the FTP protocol for non-technical users.
Given that the majority of file download activity on the internet has moved to HTTP/S, wwPDB plans to deprecate FTP download protocol on November 1st 2024, see previous announcement: https://www.wwpdb.org/news/news?year=2022#636151b266d6046810db7f0f
Support for the RSYNC protocol, which offers additional functionality, will continue to be maintained.
As announced previously, wwPDB supports protocol-specific DNS names:
http://files.wwpdb.org for HTTP/S
rsync://rsync.wwpdb.org for RSYNC
ftp.wwpdb.org for FTP; will be deprecated on November 1, 2024. Note this DNS name does not accept HTTP/S traffic.
Given that the majority of file download activity on the internet has moved to HTTP/S, wwPDB plans to deprecate FTP download protocol on November 1st 2024, see previous announcement: https://www.wwpdb.org/news/news?year=2022#636151b266d6046810db7f0f
Support for the RSYNC protocol, which offers additional functionality, will continue to be maintained.
As announced previously, wwPDB supports protocol-specific DNS names:
http://files.wwpdb.org for HTTP/S
rsync://rsync.wwpdb.org for RSYNC
ftp.wwpdb.org for FTP; will be deprecated on November 1, 2024. Note this DNS name does not accept HTTP/S traffic.
Best regards
Jose
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Jose Duarte
RCSB Protein Data Bank
San Diego Supercomputer Center
UC San Diego
La Jolla CA, USA
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