Monday, May 5, 2008

File transfer Protocol

FTP... yet another crazy internet thing-ma-jig that we need to learn. And I can safely say, 100%, that i have absolutely no idea what it is. I mean I know it is a network protocol used to transfer data from one computer to another through a network such as the internet... but really what does that mean? It makes no sense to me! At all
Obviously it must have pros, which I'm guessing are things such as allowing file transfer at fast rates to every network and the like. I've read the wikipedia page about it but it really doesn't help.
I did pick up on security problems from wiki though, basically because of the encoding user names, passwords and the like can be viewed by anyone... which isn't really all that good!
Thats pretty much all I was able to understand at this moment in time. Is anyone able to help me understand it better?

Here's the link to the wikipedia page about FTP

1 comment:

Sam said...

I know what you mean about understanding FTP dude. Is it a concept? is it a type of program? who knows, I'm hoping I can understand it without a definition.

 
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