Subject: bug#17959: eww: FTP is not supported; but with ftp_proxy, it is

From: Ted Zlatanov <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 11:40:41 -0500

On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 19:15:46 +0000 Ivan Shmakov <[email-masked]> wrote: 

IS> Package:  emacs
IS> Severity: wishlist

IS> 	As of 36634f669f2c, eww unconditionally disallows browsing ftp:
IS> 	scheme URIs.  Arguably, it should only do so when no proxy
IS> 	setting is in effect for the URI in question.

IS> 	For instance, with ("ftp" . "MYPROXY:PORT") in
IS> 	url-proxy-services (and user-error commented out in eww.el)
IS> 	M-x eww shows FTP sites perfectly fine.  Consider, e. g.:

IS> M-x eww RET ftp://ladsftp.nascom.nasa.gov/

IS> You are user #109 of 800 simultaneous users allowed.

What would be the upside of simply allowing browsing ftp: scheme?

If it only works with the proxy services you note, it seems like a
pretty rare use case.

Ted