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FTP
is an Internet (or more properly a TCP/IP) communications protocol to allow you
to upload and download files from a machine connected to your local machine via
the Internet. FTP is composed of two parts; an FTP client and an FTP server.
The FTP client is the software you execute on your local machine to send or
receive files. The FTP server is software which executes on a server machine on
which the files are to be saved or retrieved. Most (if not all) machines which
provide Web serving capability also serve as FTP servers to allow you to upload
your web pages. Web pages are usually composed of HTML source files and images
(either JPEG or GIF format).
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You
should run FTP client software to connect to a FTP server on the Net.
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You
must use an account to login.
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Username
/ password
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Anonymous
/ email address
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HTTP
can be used for downloading file on the Web, but not as efficient as FTP.
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There
are two modes of transfer in FTP:
Ø ascii
Ø binary.
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ASCII
is used only for files saved in ASCII format (this includes Postcript files) Binary
is used for files that are formatted and saved using a wordprocessing software
like WordPerfect (.txt), spreadsheets (.xls), images (.jpg, .gif), and many
executable programs (.exe) and videos (.avi).
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