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File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

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File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

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- Downloading a file on the internet today is usually pretty easy. We open up a web browser, we see some kind of link and it says download. We click on it and it goes into our download folder off of our web browser. Now, before the web was popular, there was another way to move files around on the internet called file transfer protocol or FTP. Now, FTP in its most simple mode uses port 21 and it's a pretty straightforward process. Now, if you're going to be doing FTP, well first of all, you need an FTP client. Luckily for us, every web browser on earth is an FTP client. Here's an example right here. What I want you to look at very carefully, look where I'm linked into. This is not HTTP, do you see this? This says FTP colon whack whack. What you're looking at here is an FTP site. So pretty much every web browser is an absolutely fantastic FTP client in and of itself, but if you want to do really robust FTP, you're going to have to get an FTP client. I've got one here called FileZilla…

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