The FTP protocol for file downloads has been losing popularity over the years in favor of HTTP/S. There are many advantages of HTTP/S including speed, statelessness, security (HTTPS), and better support. Importantly during the past 2-3 years the main web browsers (Chrome and Firefox) have dropped support for the FTP protocol, which has effectively discontinued the FTP protocol for non-technical users. Given that the majority of file download activity on the internet has moved to HTTP/S, wwPDB plans to deprecate FTP download protocol on November 1st 2024 (see previous announcement) <http://www.wwpdb.org/news/news?year=2022#636151b266d6046810db7f0f>. Support for the RSYNC protocol, which offers additional functionality, will continue to be maintained. As announced previously <http://www.wwpdb.org/news/news?year=2022#6303be3b707ecd4f63b3d3d9>, wwPDB supports protocol-specific DNS names: * http://files.wwpdb.org for HTTP/S * http://rsync.wwpdb.org for RSYNC * ftp.wwpdb.org for FTP; will be deprecated on November 1, 2024. Note this DNS name does not accept HTTP/S traffic. Please contact info@wwpdb.org with any questions. -- Regards, Jasmine =========================================================== Jasmine Young, Ph.D. Biocuration Team Lead RCSB Protein Data Bank Research Professor Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 174 Frelinghuysen Rd Piscataway, NJ 08854-8087 Email:jasmine@rcsb.rutgers.edu Phone: (848)445-0103 ext 4920 Fax: (732)445-4320 ===========================================================