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What Is FTP (File Transfer Protocol)?
What Is FTP (File Transfer Protocol)?
✍: FYIcenter.com
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is
a standard network protocol used to transfer computer files between
a client and server on a computer network.
The original specification for the File Transfer Protocol was written by Abhay Bhushan and published as RFC 114 on 16 April 1971. The latest specification of FTP is defined in RFC 2428.
Here is typical session of using the FTP client command to download a file from a FTP server:
C:\fyicenter>ftp apache.cs.utah.edu Connected to mirror-vip.cs.utah.edu. 220 Welcome to the UofU School of Computing FTP Mirror User (mirror-vip.cs.utah.edu:(none)): anonymous 331 Please specify the password. Password: 230 Login successful. ftp> dir 200 Port command successful 150 Opening data channel for directory listing of "/" drwxr-xr-x 10/6/2016 5:27:00 AM apache.org ... 226 Successfully transferred "/" ftp> cd apache.org 250 Directory successfully changed. ftp> cd commons/io 250 Directory successfully changed. ftp> dir 150 Opening data channel for directory listing of "/apache.org/commons/io" -r--r--r-- 1 4/22/2016 12:00:00 AM RELEASE-NOTES.txt ... ftp> get RELEASE-NOTES.txt 200 Port command successful 150 Opening data channel for file download from server of "..." 226 Successfully transferred "/apache.org/commons/io/RELEASE-NOTES.txt" ftp> quit C:\fyicenter>
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