On Mon, 1 Oct 2012, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
(
http://ftp.rodents-montreal.org/mouse/blah/). I
don't recall why I
initially started running it; the most plausible reason I can think of
offhand is to shut up people who were whining about having to
(horrors!) use something other than a Web browser to look at my stuff.
I've been using a web browser to transfer files from anonymous FTP
sites for years, as have many others. Why didn't they just use an
ftp:// URL?
gopher://
<sarcasm>
But!!! Gopher is insecure!
</sarcasm>
Bug 388195 - Remove gopher protocol support for Firefox
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388195
I suspect FTP may well be next.