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From: trentbuck@gmail.com (Trent W. Buck)
Subject: Re: [MAINTENANCE] Shutting down FTP services at netfilter.org
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 12:37:21 +1000
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Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de> writes:

> On Wednesday 2020-06-03 19:16, Harald Welte wrote:
>>On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 01:37:12PM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>>> So netfilter.org will also be shutting down FTP services
>>
>> with HTTP there is no real convenient way to get directory listings
>> in a standardized / parseable format.
>
> There was convention, but no standard.

IIUC RFC 4918 (WebDAV) can, in principle, do this.
But it's awful so nobody does. :-)

I agree that rsync:// is the easy and obvious replacement for anon FTP
(when HTTP isn't sufficient).