Definition: FTP is short for File Transfer Protocol. It is a method of transferring both ASCII and Binary files between networked computers. For FTP to work an FTP server must be running on the target PC and usually requires a user-name and password to login. FTP servers can be configured to allow anonymous access.
FTP is not secure- the user-name and password are sent in plain text. One way round this is to use SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol). Note this is not just SSH (a secure networking protocol that is usually used to run commands remotely on another computer) but a whole lot more such as deleting files, resuming broken file transfers and listings of directories.
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZExamples:
I FTP'd the source code of Quake III from ID Software's FTP site.
