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2 months ago

Time to drop support for Kerberos5 FTP in #curl

drop support for Kerberos5 FTP by bagder · Pull Request #18577 · curl/curl

It was accidentally broken in commit 0f4c439, shipped since 8.8.0 (May 2024) and yet not a single person has noticed or reported, indicating that we might as well drop support for FTP Kerberos. Krb...

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nyanbinary (365d/y spoopy)

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inb4 it actually sees use, just no one using it has updated their curl since 2024 :blobcatgiggle:

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Stefan Eissing

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See, that is why I add the occasional bug here and there: we need to know what people use!😌

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daniel:// stenberg://

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@icing it's an art form!

@Stefan Eissing

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aceryz

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a good ol' "scream test": disable a service and listen. If there's no screams, it would seem it was not in use.

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abortretryfail

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FTP works with Kerberos? Cool!

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Michael Bacon

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Me: Oh, huh, that sounds kind of cool tho

Also me: Have I ever used it? Uh…

Also also me: have I ever done a damned thing to maintain it? Uh….

Me: yeah I’ll hush now

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Burak Gürsoy

in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// 2 months ago

hmm, I’ve never used curl for /any/ ftp, in fact I haven’t touched anything *ftp since forever ;p I did have one use case for kerberos to interact with a kerberized Hadoop, in another lifetime, but that part seems to be untouched, I no longer use that though. It’s good to drop dead weight :)

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