What is FTP? See how File Transfer Protocol moves website files, how an FTP client works, and why SFTP is the safer option.

ITworld.com – Often referred to as a “chroot jail” or a “padded cell” because users cannot escape from the directories into which they are put when they log in, the basic concept of a “chroot” (change ...

Editor's Note: Adam Bertram originally wrote this article and Brien Posey has expanded it. Transferring files via FTP is one of those tasks every sysadmin has done at least once in their career. FTP ...

A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail. Here’s a small piece of news you may have missed while you were trying to ...

There are numerous ways to transfer files these days, the oldest and still very widely used method is FTP. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and was defined as early as 1971 in the very early days ...

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is one of the most commonly used protocols for transferring files between hosts on the Internet. In addition to file transfers, FTP can append, rename, and delete files ...

This post will explore the pros and cons of using email, FTP, cloud-based file sharing and cloud-based PDM based on my experience with each. That saying is true for any group endeavor, whether it’s a ...

Hypertext transfer protocol, or HTTP, and file transfer protocol, known as FTP, are two methods that allow you to upload or download files and pages from the Internet. The two have overlapping ...

This memo is the official specification of the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Distribution of this memo is unlimited. The following new optional commands are included in this edition of the ...

why is FTP so SOOOO much faster? Its easily 3x faster on my home network to copy via FTP. I know there is less overhead but is it that much less? Is there any way to improve windows file copy speeds ...

Anyone know if the FTP protocol spec has a threshold for file name lengths? I have a few OS X based FTP clients who will be transfersing files with 50+ chars in their file names via FTP to each other.

What is anonymous FTP (File Transfer Protocol)? Anonymous File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a method that lets users access public files from a remote server or archive site without requiring them to ...