What to Do Since FTP No Longer Supported in Mac OSX Lion?

Gregory Lypny gregory.lypny at videotron.ca
Sun Aug 14 13:27:43 EDT 2011


Agreed.  And I don’t think it would be a stretch for the Rev team to throw an SFTP command into LiveCode.

Gregory


On Sun, Aug 14, 2011, at 10:01 AM, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

> Certainly the more protocols supported, the better ;) Since Apple could have used SFTP earlier, but didn't, I wonder if one might ask what good reason they had for 
> using FTP until now. I think the "good reason" for the current change is that SFTP is more secure and that sounds real good and clearly fits the model of enhanced 
> security in 10.7. How relevant this additional security is to what percentage of users who have been using OS X's built-in file sharing in the FTP mode, considering 
> the who, what, how and why, is something that could be debated. (Definitely, though, a trivial pursuit since the decision has been made.) 
> 
> Warren




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