Unable to force FileZilla to use insecure plain FTP in QuickConnect toolbar

Bug #1712886 reported by Norbert
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FileZilla
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filezilla (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I'm using FileZilla since Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - here it was 3.5.3.
Now I upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - it has 3.15.0.2.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Install FTP server which support both connections types - plain FTP and FTPES.
2. Try to connect in both modes from FileZilla:

   2.a. write ftp://server in Host field to connect with plain insecure FTP in QuickConnect toolbar
   2.b. write ftpes://server in Host field to connect with explicit FTP over TLS in QuickConnect

Expected results:
* Previous version (3.5.3 in my case) reacts on user input as expected. It connects as FTP when FTP was requested (ftp://server in Host field) and as FTPES when FTPES was requested (ftpes://server in Host field).

Actual results:
* Modern FileZilla uses TLS even if user requested plain FTP in QuickConnect field.

I understand that you care about user privacy, but please make FileZilla respect user configuration.
User may want to use plain FTP from QuickConnect bar, not from SiteManager.

Tags: xenial
Norbert (nrbrtx)
tags: added: xenial
Revision history for this message
Paul White (paulw2u) wrote :

From the upstream bug report:

"This is intentional. As plain FTP is insecure it is made hard to use. In a future version there will be warnings you have to click away each time you connect to an FTP server that does not support FTP over TLS."

Closing as "Invalid". No point in changing to "Wishlist" as upstream are clear about how they are dealing with plain FTP.

Changed in filezilla (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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